From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 18 6:31:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F9437B85C for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 06:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrant.intranova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D33E1220; Thu, 18 May 2000 09:30:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:30:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Eric Jacoboni Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Can't get ep to see Etherlink III ISA NIC on 3.4R In-Reply-To: <87r9b0xh5w.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 May 2000, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > >>>>> "Gallagher" == Gallagher, Mick 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. > > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message