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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:36:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs for 3Com 3C515-TX NIC?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907301832030.23722-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.10.9907301558470.16106-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov>

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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Guy Helmer wrote:

# 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,

I did the former but not the latter.  I'll stick it in a
machine here at home (right after dinner) and give it a
try.

# 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.

Thanks for the hints.  If I have to change anything to get it
to work I'll send you some diffs.

-steve



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