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Originally Posted by tomp
Hey there. This morning first thing I went into CMOS setup and disabled the onboad NIC. Then I put in my SMT 1244TX PCI card (dc0) and started openBSD. The dc0 device appeared to be recognized properly; no 'MII without any PHY!' message, but at the very end of dmesg was 'watchdog timeout'. No connectivity either.
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"watchdog timeout" messages are not uncommon for some drivers. While the onboard NIC is still disabled, configure
/etc/hostname.dc0, reboot, attempt to ping some arbitrary host, & post the output of
ifconfig(8) while in this configuration. Someone might see something in this output.
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After a little searching around I found one tip that moving the card to a different slot might help that problem.
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Correct. The card may have not been seated well, or may have poor connections. It may be worth putting a few drops of rubbing alcohol on a kleenex, & cleaning the card's PCI contacts to possibly get rid of oxidation.
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I'm wondering if that could be simply because I have some of the other net config stuff wrong. Or whether it is because those two devices are conflicting with each other.
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- You may need to try a different card, preferably something which isn't a 10Base-10 card.
- I would also suggest looking at the possibility of using two cards, & not using the onboard NIC at all.