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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 09:30:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Can't get ep to see Etherlink III ISA NIC on 3.4R
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005180930150.58609-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <87r9b0xh5w.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org>

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On 18 May 2000, Eric Jacoboni wrote:

> >>>>> "Gallagher" == Gallagher, Mick <mick.gallagher@roke.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Gallagher> The ep device line is definitely in the kernel
> Gallagher> configuration file, but I 
> Gallagher> don't see any indication of ep doing anything at boot time.
> 
> Is it a PnP card ? Mine is a 3C509B and dmesg output is :
> 
> ep0: <3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP)> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 9 on isa0
> ep0: Ethernet address 00:20:af:c4:92:fc
> 
> Gallagher> I ran an msdos diagnostics disk on the system, and it found
> Gallagher> the NIC no problem (it described it as '3COM913 ET 0').
> 
> Try to disable the PnP stuff if you can.

The problem here was that the card was being disabled 'di ep' instead of
being searched for.

> 
> 

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