Re: On NICs

[Augusto Cesar Radtke <radtke@illuminion.com>]

Nick Holland wrote:

> 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

It is a PCMCIA NIC ?

> 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.

I found some of these messages on a Compaq Presario 1200 running with a DE-660 PCMCIA card.

I was talking with Federico and we tracked this down to some IRQ assigment problem, the machine at all doesn't look to have IRQ conflict problem. The card and machine configuration works perfectly on Windows and Linux.

I've tracked it until pcmcia_intr_establish() but I don't have much time to continue this debugging. 

If someone have any information about this issue I would like to know and can be very useful, thanks.