From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 19 16:41:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B878237B41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:41:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25778 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Dec 2001 00:41:42 -0000 From: "Alson van der Meulen" Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:41:42 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com 509, working - kinda Message-ID: <20011220014142.M10171@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001e01c188e9$f3f1eb80$9a523204@danny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001e01c188e9$f3f1eb80$9a523204@danny> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:04:48PM -0500, Danny wrote: > I've had this problem with fbsd and 3C509's probably since I started > using the 3C's, it never really bothered me since everything works fine > but I recently have an urge to find some type of solution. Upon boot up > the NIC is detected in the following fashion: > > hiteknology /kernel: ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port > 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 > hiteknology /kernel: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. > hiteknology last message repeated 4 times > hiteknology /kernel: ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 > hiteknology /kernel: ep1: <3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP)> > at port 0x210-0x21f irq 3 on isa0 > hiteknology /kernel: ep1: Ethernet address 00:60:08:07:d5:6a > > Simply using ep1 works fine, but I just want to find out what might be > causing this and what (if any) steps I can take in order to correct the > nuisance. Thanks for your help. Did you disable ISAPNP using the DOS config tool (I think it's called 3c5x9cfg)? And tried to set the io to 0x210 and irq to 3 using the same tool? HTH, Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message