Re: On NICs

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Mailing Lists wrote:
> 
> Dear sirs;
> where do i find some documentation on how OpenBSD works with NICS?
> The first easy question may be: how the hell does it give them a name???
> 
> Then, i'd like to know what is a
> <nick_short_name> : device timeout (i.e.: ne3: device timeout)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Gabriele

Naming:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Setup

Error message:
The device timeout often means an IRQ conflict.  Many strange little
messages are actually documented in their respective man pages ('man
ne'), but unfortunately, not that message on that driver.  The 'IRQ
conflict' comes from experience. 8-)

Look at your entire 'dmesg' output, or failing that, send the _entire_
dmesg output to the list.

Nick.
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