On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:19:17PM +0200, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after ttyflags -a (in /etc/rc) my WD8013EPC ethernet card
> is unusable. There is always a device timeout.
> 
> If I ifconfig the card at the very beginning of /etc/rc
> I can ping other hosts until the "ttyflags -a" command
> in line 95.
> 
> This is a plain NetBSD-1.4 installation with the GENERIC
> kernel from kern.tgz.
> 
> Hubert Feyrer was so kind to send me an 1.4.1 INSTALL
> kernel -- the same problem.
> 
> The card works without problems in single user mode
> (I installed via this card).
> 
> Is this a known problem?

Are you sure you don't have something else which conflics with we0, at the
same I/O or IRQ (e.g. do you have any serial port at unusual I/O or
IRQ) ?
Could you try to move I/O and IRQ of your board so that it gets probed as
we1 instead ? If it work this could give us a clue at where the problem is.

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