Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:30:33 -0700 (MST) From: Ross Beyer <rbeyer@azstarnet.com> To: Sean Peck <seanp@loudcloud.com> Cc: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <jbarnes@lpl.arizona.edu> Subject: Re: 3C509-TPO at ep0 failing Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0105021118170.27323-100000@andromeda> In-Reply-To: <3AEF46A1.4CB121D9@loudcloud.com>
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Nick & Sean,
Thanks for your help. I've gotten the system to recognize it's
ethernet card. This is the solution that ended up working for me:
3Com 3C509-TPO setup: Using the utility from 3Com, I verified that the
NIC had it's PnP switched off and it thought it was on the same IRQ
as the system did (3). I didn't end up having to set the NIC to
SERVER type as Sean suggested.
BIOS setup (EPoX EP-51MVP3E-M): I was able to leave the PnP OS setting
to yes, and also to let the board automatically control it's PNP/PCI
configuration. However, I did have to Disable the 2nd Onboard Serial
Port (COM 2), otherwise I got those "No irq?!" messages on boot up.
INSTALLATION KERNEL CONFIG: It was curious to me why the installation
kernel from the install floppies was able to use the NIC, but later
the installed GENERIC kernel was not. So I installed the system
again, but this time went into that "Visual Kernel Configuration"
thing before the nice colored installation menus came up. In there
were a bunch of ethernet devices that I didn't need that were listed
as conflicting. So I deleted them, and proceeded with the
installation. This time upon the post-install reboot, it recognized
ep0, no problem.
Again, thank you to Nick and Sean for their help, and thank you to all
of you guys that are subscribed to FreeBSD-questions to help out poor
saps like me.
Ross
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Sean Peck 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!"
> >
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