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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 13:54:04 -0500
From: Ken <welk@magibox.net>
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When I had a similar problem it was a mismatch between how I configured
the ed0 device and the card. Check your IRQ and I/O base address on both
and make sure they are the same.
You can boot FreeBSD with the -c parameter and then choose the View
configuration method (I think it is), and in the Networking devices
you'll find the ed0 device, it's I/O and IRQ settings which FreeBSD is
using to attempt to communicate with the board.

My ethernet board is also software configurable. I booted to a DOS
session, ran the configuration utility and changed/verified the IRQ and
I/O base address.

Worked like a charm. Good luck.


Felix Wu wrote:

> Hi, I'm new to freeBSD and I just installed it.  Somehow it finds my
> NE2000 compatible ethernet card, but it kept giving me ed0: device
> time
> out message.  I read some docs said that I should change my IRQ
> setting
> to -1 since my card is configurated by software instead of jumpers,
> then
> I tried it but still no luck.. anyone got a clue? or should I just go
> buy
> a network card with jumpers?  thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Felix Wu
> http://www.skyinternet.com/fwu