From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 22:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B65A437B7DD for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from statik@cris.com) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.198.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id BAA26631; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from carl.cris.com (ts008d44.phx-az.concentric.net [208.176.169.152]) by newman.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id BAA17201; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:17:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.1.20000705220304.00b0b8a0@pop3.concentric.net> X-Sender: statik@pop3.concentric.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:06:55 -0700 To: Mark Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: josh b Subject: Re: 3COM 3C509 flukyness. In-Reply-To: <200007060417.VAA09816@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yeah i had that boot up message for a little while, took a little thinking but i got it fixed. for me it had to do with the devices listed in my /boot/kernel.conf file... it wasthis: di ie di fe di le di lnc di cs di sn q .. before this all happend my 3com 3c509 was working great, anyways i removed all those lines ( i was getting some error in my bootup cuz i commented out those devices)..but when i booted up again i got this eeprom can'tload error!! i put those lines back in and it wasall good again...i hope this helped ya bud!! At 09:17 PM 7/5/00 -0700, Mark Smith wrote: >Someone previously mentioned their system reported something about >not finding the EEPROM on a 3c509 during boot. Well, it happened to >me and I can at least give some symptoms. > >1. I booted from the 4.0R CD and entered the visual config. I disabled >everything in storage except the floppy (I run a Adaptec 2940UW) and >anything else that I didn't need. Continued on and the card came up >just fine. > >2. I rebooted from the 4.0R CD and left the config default and kept >booting and then the ep driver reported no EEPROM and a NIC >address of all 00 > >The card has been configed with 3c5x9cfg to have PNP disabled and >an IRQ of 10 and IO of 0x300. > >I hope this can help somebody. >Mark >-- >========================================================================= >UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! >========================================================================= > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message