From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 23: 0:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu (pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.174.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D0CB37B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athenaeum (athenaeum.ecn.purdue.edu [128.46.174.138]) by pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3moyman) with SMTP id BAA19178; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:00:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20001013010316.00a9e570@pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu> X-Sender: gjeong@pyramid.ecn.purdue.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:03:16 To: "Mac" , From: "Garrett D. Jeong" Subject: Subject: Re: AARRGGHH!! (4.1-RELASE install woes with 3c509 card) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message