From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 24 19:16:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3343C37B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB0043E72 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 19:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FCE66BF; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:16:49 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: Craig Rodrigues , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:16:48 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> <20020825010026.3DA986BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> <20020824213320.A162@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020824213320.A162@attbi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020825021649.1FCE66BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 24 August 2002 05:33 pm, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:00:25PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > > > > > > > > The boot did not proceed past this point. This > > > is not the correct MAC address for this particular card. > > > > > > I have FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE installed on a separate > > > partition on the same system and it works fine. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Yes, you need to get the dos utilities for that card from www.3com.com > > boot your server with a dos boot disk, then run the utility to setup the > > card. > > Hi, > > Are you sure about this? I have used this particular network card > on this system for 5 years under multiple operating systems and have > had no problems with it to date. I only see this problem with the Aug. 18 > CURRENT snapshot. > If I reboot my system under FreeBSD-4.6, the card works fine. > I did not need to run the DOS utilities from 3COM to get the card to work > under FreeBSD-4.6. > > Thanks. Well, your mileage may vary, but I had exactly the same error message with one of those cards about 3 months ago. Re-running the setup utils fixed it. If my memory serves me correctly, I also disabled PNP-OS in the bios. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message