From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 9:51:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.binep.ac.ru (ns.binep.ac.ru [193.233.37.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309DF37B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boltnev (boltnev [193.233.44.73]) by ns.binep.ac.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA03576; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:51:21 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Message-ID: <01dc01c0136b$d0f1a660$492ce9c1@binep.ac.ru> Reply-To: "Igor B. Bykhalo" From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" To: "Mac" , References: <200008311332.OAA06657@ngo.org.uk> Subject: Re: AARRGGHH!! (4.1-RELASE install woes with 3c509 card) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:52:14 +0400 Organization: BINEPCP RAS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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