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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!news1.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't use net cards upon install Date: 06 Apr 1997 22:21:18 -0700 Organization: codewright Lines: 19 Message-ID: <x7ohbro1bl.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> References: <334813C6.D23@intermind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dumbcat.codewright.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5767 Steve Mushero <mushero@intermind.com> writes: > We're trying to do a simple NetBSD install on a few intel machines, but > can never get the ethernet cards to work. We've tried several machines What kind of machines? What you describe is what happened to me when the ethernet card was using the same interrupt as another piece of hardware. The NE2000 clone would give the device timeout message. The 3com card would actually send the packet on the wire -- it just couldn't receive. When I verified that the interrupt handler was never called I knew where to look. In my case the machine was a portable, the ethenet cards were PCMCIA cards, and the hardware stealing my interrupts was the portables built in sound card (which I didn't even realize existed :-) Good luck. // marc