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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: Ethernet card
From:       "Michael" <enews () michaelvince ! com>
Date:       2000-06-30 16:18:21
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When I went from 4.0 release (where everything worked fine) to 4.0 stable my
ep0 seemed to cause the pc to lockup at boot when probeing for hardware.
It stats in the freebsd complete book that the ep0 is bugy and can cause the
PC to lockup on hardware probes.
I have 3 ethernet cards in my system a (3com 905b ep0  0x210-0x21f irq 3
isa) (xl0pci) and a (winbond NE2000 ed0 irc 5 0x360 isa)
The way I fixed the problem was pulled I pulled out the ed0 NE2000 and
placed one of those realtek ne2000's (pci) that I happend to have lieing
around.
Even though theoretically it should of been the ep0 that was causing the
lockups since the generic kernel detected and used the ep0 fine I figured it
was the way the hardware was being probed or somehow the ed0 was
conflicting.
I did download the 3com softset program to configure the hardware address's
but they didnt seem to stick.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Fuller" <platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: Ethernet card


> I just did an upgrade from 3.x-stable to 4-stable.  The whole process went
> over very well, and everything in my system works great, except my 3Com
> ethernet card (which worked just fine before the upgrade).  This kinda
> makes a frantic time for me, since this is my main sever AND gateway to my
> network.  I have been looking through the archives for this list and not
> finding anything that resolves my problem here.  I have tried everything I
> can think of, including making the ep0 setup in the kernel match exactly
> what it had been for 3.x.  The message I am getting is:
> ifconfig: interface ep0 does not exist
>
> my rc.conf on this says:
>
> network_interfaces="ep0 lo0 tun0" # List of network interfaces (lo0 is
> loopback).
> ifconfig_ep0="inet 206.114.39.193 netmask 255.255.255.240"
> ifconfig_ep0_alias0="inet 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>
> Also, get messages:
> ad1: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx retrying
> etc.
>
> Any suggestions?
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