Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:35:19 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: strange 3Com 3C509 probe behaviour Message-ID: <20010326193518.T20830@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20010326092444.F38373DF@hcswork.hcs.de>; from hm@hcs.de on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:24:44AM %2B0200 References: <20010326092444.F38373DF@hcswork.hcs.de>
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:24 +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
>
> i have one 3Com 3C509 in a 4.x-stable machine. At boot time, it
> produces the following messages:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> This card is detected as a PnP card by the (Award PnP-) BIOS.
Do yourself a favour and use the 3c5x9cfg.exe setup program to
turn PnP mode *off* (this has been stated in another article).
Make sure you power down the machine after being asked to -- I've
seen people trying to make this setting half a dozen times and
more without success because they thought CTRL-ALT-DEL would
suffice ...
In case you don't have the setup disk (they were shipped with
bundles of 5+ cards in the past only and not with single items)
you can find them at the 3com site for download. Plus you should
have an DoS boot disk (OpenDOS?) around. IIRC there are Linux
tools, too (it's the "netdiag" package with the comment "...
saves you from having DOS utils around"?
$ rpm -qi netdiag
[ ... ]
Description :
Enables hardware level diagnosis without booting Dos
Authors:
--------
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
). Maybe Donald Becker's site
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html is worth a
visit, too (if not for download then for all the other info and
links there).
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