At 04:36 PM 6/26/00 +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:06:03AM -0400, John Holland wrote:
> > Sunday, I did a fresh cvsup of RELENG_4, made and installed world and a
> new
> > kernel. The reboot hangs at the point the old kernel gets to the two ed*
> > devices (old Thomas Conrad NE2000 NICs). Before this, the system was
> > working perfectly.
> >
> > Did something break in the ed driver in the two months since I last built
> > the system from source?
> >
>On 06/17 there was a change in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c, which causes my ISA
>NE2000 compatible to hang at boot time, just like in your case. I contacted
>Paul Saab, who commited the change, about it and hope he will have a
>solution. As a quick workaround, you might try replacing if_ed.c with an
>'old' one and recompile your kernel. I didn't try this myself. Instead
>I replaced my ISA NIC with a PCI NIC (also using ed0...) which works fine.
>If you go into config mode during boot and disable the ed driver the system
>will boot again - without network of course :-(.
>(The change in if_ed.c had to do with probing newer cards).
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed to know.
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