On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, P=E5l Halvorsen wrote:

>
>Now I also get an error message:
>ne2: device timeout
>Can this be the source of the whole problem. Any ideas of how to solve it?

Most likely some other (possibly unsupported) hardware is attached to the
same IRQ as ne2.  You need to build a kernel with

=09options PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK=3D0xNNNN

where 0xNNNN is a bit mask of the IRQs which aren't used by anything else.
Assuming this is a laptop, have a look at the documentation (or maufacturer=
's
website) to see if you can find what IRQs the built-in devices use.
Otherwise, you will just have to mask out the IRQ which it is currently
using, whereupon it should pick another.  If this doesn't work either, mask
the new IRQ out as well and repeat.  You can actually start by masking out =
all
the IRQs for "standard" devices (keyboard, mouse, 1 or 2 serial ports,
parallel port, 1 or 2 IDE controllers).  In fact AFAIR this was the problem
with my Dell laptop.  The NE2000 card ended up sharing IRQ7 with lpt0,
because ne2 attached before lpt0.

But if yo are running a fairly recent -current, you shouldn't need to
do this, see http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/02/01/0009.htm=
l


Roger

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