Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:03:16 From: "Garrett D. Jeong" <gjeong@ecn.purdue.edu> To: "Mac" <mac@ngo.org.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Subject: Re: AARRGGHH!! (4.1-RELASE install woes with 3c509 card) Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001013010316.00a9e570@pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu>
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Mac,
I was having the same problem and I saw your listing
from a while ago. If you haven't solved your problem,
here is the solution I came up with that worked.
1. Turn the plug-and-play ON for the 3c509 using 3c5x9cfg.exe.
It seems that 4.1 is trying to read the PnP eeprom to configure
the card, so let it do it.
2. Release the interupt that was reserved for the ISA
card in PnP management in the motherboard bios.
After I did this everything was better.
Good luck,
Garrett
>> Hi all,
>
>Hi,
>
>[...]
>> But, I can't seem to get the 3C509 card in the machine to work.
>[...]
>> The major oddity is that the kernel reports (something like) this during
>> boot:-
>>
>> ep0: found at 0x300 <---- i.e. this line looks OKay
>> ep0: eeprom not responding
>> ep0: eeprom not responding
>> ep0: eeprom not responding
>> ep0: eeprom not responding
>> ep0: eeprom not responding
>> ep0: MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>
>> Now, I do have 3Com's diagnostics, so I've checked the card out, and
>> it's fine. (and remember this all works fine with 3.1-RELEASE boot
>> floppies).
>
>Check if you have the latest 3c5x9cgf.exe, look at
>http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509/3c5096.1.htm
>
>and use this utility do turn OFF the PnP features of the card.
>
>BTW, this topic was frequently discussed on the list.
>Please, next time search archives...
>
>Good luck,
>Igor.
>
>
>
>
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