On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:40:03AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Thus spake Juergen Tritthardt
> > 	/sbin/ifconfig ep1 inet ... netmask ...
> > 
> > switched on the LED of the adaptor and gave me the output
> > 
> > 	pcmcia0: card irq 9
> 
> I notice that the boot disk that works gives me irq 5 but the kernel I
> build gives me irq 9.

In my experience such problems are generally due to an IRQ conflict.
Does your laptop BIOS have settings to reserve IRQs for non-pnp ISA
hardware? In that case, my guess is that IRQ 9 (== IRQ 2, BTW) is
already taken by some piece of builtin hardware without NetBSD knowing
about it. You could also try to build a kernel with your network card
hardwired to irq 5 and see whether that helps, but I think you should
be able to fix this by playing with your BIOS settings.

Feico.