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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Don Wallwork <don.wallwork@stelhq.com>
Cc:        hosokawa@Makefile.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com Etherlink III 3C589D PCMCIA Card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970925170331.14200A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <342ACE62.15B0@stelhq.com>

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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Don Wallwork wrote:

> System info:
> 	NEC Versa 2635CD Notebook
> 	Pentium 133
> 	16M RAM
> 	FreeBSD Version 2.2.2
>  
> PCMCIA info:
> 	3Com Etherlink III 3C589D
> 	IRQ 10
> 	Driver: ep0

When I saw this first I thought this was for installing in Windows ...:)
I've been installing this card on laptops for the past three days for our
ResNet folks.

> I have been through the FAQ's & mailing list archives for FreeBSD &
> PAO, installed the PAO patch, but so far nothing has worked.
> 
> The following items were checked:
> 	The pccardd daemon correctly recognizes insertion and 
> 	removal of the card. (No problems w/ IRQ allocation) 
> 
> 	Ifconfig shows the correct settings for the PC.
> 
> 	Netstat -rn shows the correct routing table entries.
> 
> 	Tcpdump is able to see network traffic, but when you 
> 	exit tcpdump, it reports that about 1/3 of the packets
> 	were dropped by the kernel.

That's fairly normal, especially on a busy net.

> The problem is that you can't contact another host.  e.g.: Ping to a 
> remote machine fails.  (About 1 in 300000 packets get a response.)

Are you _sure_ routing is correct?  

Nothing lives on IRQ 10 in this computer?

> Any suggestions?  I could definitely get another card if that is the
> problem, but I want to make sure that the card that I switch to will
> work.  Are there any preferred cards?

The earlier revs (3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C) seem to work better.  The D's are
pretty new and PAO may not have been adjusted yet work with them.  They
take a different driver in Windows 95, and FreeBSD/PAO may not have picked
up the change yet.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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