Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:40:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: figueroa@alamo.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boca 16 port and 3C509 Message-ID: <199610140040.TAA01467@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199610131017.FAA00226@travis.alamo.net> from "figueroa@alamo.net" at Oct 13, 96 05:17:49 am
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> > Hi all, > > I have a couple of machines which are used for a small private ISP/BBS > system. Our Primary DNS is running BSDi/OS 2.0.1 and our secondary is > running FreeBSD (it used to run Linux/RedHat, until I saw the light !!! ;> ) > > The machines run fine through our internal network which IP based via ISDN > connect. The problem is that I want to install a Boca 16 multi-port card. > The FAQ was very helpful in setting this up, since that part works fine. > The problem is the 3C509 card. I cannot get these two to work together. > The Boca is set up with an Interrupt of 4 and a base IO address of 100h. > The 3C509 was set up with the default of 0x300. No matter what I do to > the IO setting for the 3C509, it cannot get recognized by the boot-up > probe. Does anyone else have a multiport card and ethernet card working > together? ( can't we all just get along?!? ;> ). Upon boot up the kernel > does see the Boca in shared IRQ mode but not the 3C509. If I disconnect/disable > the Boca, the 3C509 is recognized. Can anyone shed some light as to what > the problem may be and what I could do to get these to work? > Something deep in the recesses of my memory tell me that there is some incompatibility with devices taking some of the addresses at 0x100 and using a 3c509... I forget the exact addresses, but at least this is a direction to go in!!! John
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