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From: Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 3COM 3C509 flukyness.
To: statik@cris.com (josh b)
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Oh, yeah, when I wrote the message, I'd forgotten I'd disabled all
the other NICs along with the storage controllers. <G>

On to the CVSUP setup, then the firewall and then NAT.

Mark

> 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
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