On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 12:54:00PM -0700, Dave Guynn wrote:
> on a ftp server on my netbsd/mac68k.  I just installed a Kingston 
> NE2000 on the 486 I want to run netbsd on, and I set up the network 
> with the correct IP settings, with no router or domain name.  I 
> format the hard drive, and put in the server path and IP. I then 
> select the option to install. It waits, i get no hub traffic, and it 
> says ne2: device timeout. Please help.
The NIC is probably using a different IRQ than the kernel thinks.
PnP on such cheap NICs doesn't work reliable (It's not a NetBSD problem,
Windows suffers much more from this). Try disabling Plague&Pray on your
card and set IRQ and adresses to something your kernel knows (It's documented
somewhere in the install-files), for current INSTALL-kernels e.g.:

Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
                ne0     0x280   9
                ne1     0x300   10

(from src/distrib/notes/i386/hardware)

Hope this helps,
  Thilo.
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