From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 08:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA19882 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@revolution.3-cities.com) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id IAA21875; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:17:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark D Smith Message-Id: <199808061517.IAA21875@revolution.3-cities.com> Subject: Re: 3c509B in TP limbo To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "spork" at Aug 6, 98 01:08:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, then. It's (I believe) an interaction with the BIOS PNP crap and the card/setup program. Your next bet is to yank the card and go to a friends 486 and try to run 3c5x9cfg there and disable the card's PNP. BTW, how old is your PC? I've only had that problem on BIOSs out of some el cheapo 133mhz and older Pentiums about 3 to 4 years ago. > Damn, I don't have that option (AMI WinBIOS), and 3c5x9cfg just locks the > system up... Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > > Charles > > > Step 1. enter the system bios and turn off PNP OS (if you can) > > step 2. run 3c5x9cfg and turn off PNP on the card and enable > > whatever media you want. > > > > step 3. run the diags (in 3c5x9cfg) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message