From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 19:48:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bedroom1.vagner.com (vsat-148-63-135-179.c2.sb4.mrt.starband.net [148.63.135.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E0737B41B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (office1.vagner.com [192.168.0.5]) by bedroom1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g0Q3neW00729; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:49:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-Id: <200201260349.g0Q3neW00729@bedroom1.vagner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: george To: Matt Penna , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C509-TP Ethernet Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:48:22 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: damon blom References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020125214653.035803d0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020125214653.035803d0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mine wont work unless i set my bios to legasy mode for the irq that is detected. On Friday 25 January 2002 07:52 pm, Matt Penna wrote: > At 01:06 PM 1/25/02 -0800, damon blom wrote: > >FreeBSD 4.5-RC #4 NEC Pentium III > >ep0:<#C509-TP EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa 0 > >ep0:No irq! > >ep0:ep_alloc() failed(6) > > > > Installed this older ethernet card. No PnP. > > Damon, > > I haven't seen this specific error, but did you configure the card using > 3COM's DOS utility? 3c5x9cfg.exe, I believe it is. > > You can download it from their web site as part of the Etherdisk driver > set. You need to run this utility from DOS to configure the card - booting > from a diskette is fine - and make sure the card isn't set so it conflicts > with anything in your system. You can set the IRQ, media options and > various other things using this utility, including disabling PnP on the > card if you need to. > > This should hopefully solve the problem for you. If already did this after > you installed the card, I'm afraid I can't help. :/ > > Matt -- FreeBSD...Real Unix...not a clone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message