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From: Gennady Sorokopud <gena@NetVision.net.il>
To: sos@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hm@kts.org
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Hello!

I'm running -current and i have similar problrms with vx driver. On startup it
refuses to work, and i need to do ifconfig vx0 up/down few times untill it
starts functioning...
my dmesg says:

vx0 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
utp[*UTP*] address 00:20:af:f7:f2:dd
vx0: eeprom failed to come ready.

I also tried some other 3c590 card, but then dmesg sayd something like:
"Warning! Defective early revision adapter!" and results were exactly the same.

On 01-Nov-96 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>In reply to Hellmuth Michaelis who wrote:
>> 
>> Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of
>> some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied
>> driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from
>> Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the 
>> machine in question.
>
>Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is
>not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why
>billyboys os'es has trouble too. 
>
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
>               So much code to hack -- so little time.

Best regards.
--------
 Gennady B. Sorokopud - System programmer at NetVision Israel.
 E-Mail: Gennady Sorokopud <gena@NetVision.net.il>
 Homepage: http://www.netvision.net.il/~gena
 PGP public key is available by fingering gena@netvision.net.il

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