Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:27:30 -0700 From: Chris Smith <chrisbsd@fnahealth.com> To: Sean Peck <seanp@loudcloud.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C509-TPO at ep0 failing Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010501162533.00ab5b98@fnahealth.com> In-Reply-To: <3AEF46A1.4CB121D9@loudcloud.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105010006260.84551-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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The first thing I would do is create a DOS boot disk, download the 3c5x9cfg utility from 3com's website, and use it to disable plug n'play, set your IRQ properly and then run the I/O test. Also make sure you have allocated an ISA IRQ in your BIOS, if applicable. That has always worked for 3c509s in the past for me. ...Chris At 04:28 PM 5/1/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I am not intimately familiar with 509s on FreeBSD but on BSDI you must also >make sure you set the NIC to SERVER type as well as change the IRQ using the >config utility that came with the card. > >Nick Rogness wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ross Beyer wrote: > > > > > I am able to use the 4.2-RELEASE install floppies to bring up the > > > system, and even install over FTP! When the system boots from > > > floppies, it sees the ep0 device, and uses it correctly. It is for > > > this reason that I was quite surprised to reboot the machine after > > > (what I thought was) a successful installation, only to find the > > > following errors: > > > > > > > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 3 on isa0 > > > ep0: No irq?! > > > ep0: ep_alloc() failed > > > ep0: device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 > > > > > > I searched through the mailing lists and found people that had trouble > > > with multiple cards or even single cards that seemed to have two > > > devices (ep0 and ep1), but I only get info for ep0. I checked using > > > the latest 3Com utility that the mailing lists suggested for other > > > problems, and verified that the NIC itself has PnP disabled. I've > > > tried a number of different combinations of the NIC PnP disabled or > > > not, setting the BIOS to PnP or not, and even messing with the IRQ. > > > Nothing that I can think of seems to help. > > > > Turn off Com Port 2 in the bios. Your ethernet card is using the > > same IRQ...which is 3. If you can't...set ep0 card to use a > > different IRQ...like 10. > > > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> > > - Keep on Routing in a Free World... > > "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Garbage Collection... the bell bottoms of programming.. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________________ Chris Smith American Group Administrators IT Department First National Administrators To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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