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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Trevor Mendez <tmendez@BBN.COM>
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Subject: Re: Net Install with 3c589 (PCMCIA)
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Trevor Mendez writes:
> 
> * Attempting to load FreeBSD 2.1 over the Net onto a IBM ThinkPad using
>   a 3Com EtherLink III ethernet card (3c589).
> 
> * Successfully made a boot disk with image from the ftp site.
> 
> * Everything worked except that after about 20 attempts, the device is never
>   attached -- it is recognized as being in slot 1, but the probe to the I/O
>   address fails, resulting in "zp0 not found at 0x300".
> 
> * I have used tried using 3com software to set the device's I/O port and INT#
>   to the ones used by the kernel.  And I have set the numbers on the card and
>   in the kernel (booting with "-c") to several other pairs of numbers without
>   success.

Did you run the software w/out card services running?

> 
> Is there something else that I should try?  Thanks.`

What is the IOMEM set to?  You can't set the IOMEM value, but you can
look at what it's set to using the configuration program.


Nate