From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 17 23:28:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BA037BC4C for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29667; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:28:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200004180628.XAA29667@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD v 4.0 and 3COM 3C509TP In-Reply-To: from "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" at "Apr 17, 0 09:58:50 am" To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:28:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: per@visimedia.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > The new ep driver in 4.0-R is quite sensitive to some things: > it does not like when the 3c509 gets probed by **another** driver (so > be sure to disable all other NIC drivers which may probe the same port > address range) > it does not like either when config paramaters are left "floating", > whithout any fixed value (the cure for this problem is to use 3com's > setup utility and set all parameters, like port address, IRQ and > Ethernet prt used : UTP, BNC ...) Matt Dodd will tell you this is not possible... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message