From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 30 14: 9:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF281585D for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11AJrb-000CJs-00; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:06:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:06:46 -0500 From: Guy Helmer To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs for 3Com 3C515-TX NIC? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Steve Price wrote: > Anyone have detailed docs for 3Com's 3C515 NIC? I found > Guy Helmer's driver, http://www.freebsd.org/~ghelmer/3c515/ > but it didn't recognize the card I have. I was going to > spend some time this weekend to see if I could figure out > what was up. Just thought it might be easier if I had > a little light reading material that described how the > chip on it was supposed to work. :) Have you tried booting with the "-v" flag to see the driver's probe messages? Did you configure the card using the configuration "pnp" commands before the kernel starts booting? For example, config> pnp 1 0 irq0 9 port0 0x360 enable os did the trick for me on a 3.2 system. When I did an install of FreeBSD 3.2 on a machine with a 3C515, I was pleasantly surprised when sysinstall captured this config command and wrote it to the kernel.conf file for future boots. Anyway, the card is mostly the same as the Vortex (if_vx.c driver) but with some ports changed. Sorry, I don't happen to have tech docs for the card. Good luck, Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message