From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 3 12:10:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA19093 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:10:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA19087; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA08146 ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.2/8.8.2) id VAA24219; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:06:37 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199611032006.VAA24219@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour In-Reply-To: from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Nov 1, 96 11:42:36 am" To: hm@kts.org Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:06:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > > Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of > > > some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied > > > driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from > > > Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the > > > machine in question. > > > > Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is > > not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why > > billyboys os'es has trouble too. > > Probably it is one of those defective ones - the coldboot probe says its > an early revision adaptor and the warmboot probe does not say it. That is impossible. I think you are using the old driver where the test for the error was done wrong. -Guido