Hi,
Actually I did do some research and found out that the ne1 driver does not
have a set IRQ. Since this is quite an old box, I got handed down to me, I
do not have the floppy tool.
I guess I will just have to move it to another slot and give it a try.
recompiling the kernel requires me to know the IRQ of the card - and I do
not know how to get this information, or if there is a way to do this with
netbsd.

Thx,
Radhika


> Google search tends to indicate your NE1 card is
> ISA and has an interrupt besides that which the
> default kernel is looking for, which is:
>
> ne1	at isa? port 0x300 irq 10
>
> (according to:
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC?rev=1.641&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
> )
>
> And the most commonly prescribed fix is using the
> floppy disk tool that came from the card manufacturer
> to change its IRQ to 10, or, build a properly configured
> kernel for the modified card's IRQ.
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 00:18:05 -0500 (EST), radhika sambamurti
> <radhika@88thstreet.com> wrote:
>
>> dmesg|grep ne1 shows:
>>
>> ne1:NE2000 Ethernet
>> ne1:Ethernet address 00:40:.....
>> ne1:device timeout
>


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