Subject: Re: ne1: device timeout (Sorry)...
To: Francesco Zerra <zerra@cmns.mnegri.it>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/03/1999 15:11:15
On Feb 3, Francesco Zerra wrote
> [...]
> These lines are the output of 'dmesg'
> ==============================================================================
> ............
> ep1 at eisa0 slot 3: 3Com 3C579-TP Ethernet
> ep1: interrupting at irq 10
> ep1: MAC address 00:20:af:74:d3:a9
> ep1: 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split, utp/aui (default utp)
> ...........
> ne1 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 10
> ne1: NE2000 Ethernet
> ne1: Ethernet address 00:60:52:00:f8:cc
> =============================================================================
> 

Both ep1 and ne1 uses IRQ 10. IRQ sharing on ISA is generally a bad thing
(althouh there are specifig configs where it may work). I don't know
for EISA ...

Try changing one of your board to use another, free IRQ.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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