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From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 is the wacknes!!
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> thanks for the quick reply.. i tried just device ep ( thats what it says to 
> do in to LINT also) and it just gives me this on boot up:
> 
> ep0: <3Com 35c09-Comba Etherlink III> at port 0x280-0x28f irq 15 on isa0
> ep0: No irq?!
> ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
Is IRQ 15 free in the BIOS?

Larry
> 
> i canot figure it out...
> 
> At 08:30 PM 7/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >You dont have to give it any arguements for the nic, just try device ep0
> >
> >
> >
> >At 08:26 PM 7/2/00 , you wrote:
> >>hello...im trying to get my 3com etherlink 3 to work on my 4.0 box.
> >>heres my kernel config for it:
> >>
> >>device ep0      at      isa? port 0x300 irq 10
> >>
> >>i have the rest of the nic commented out. and when i boot up i get this:
> >>
> >>ep0 at port 0x300 irq 10 on isa0
> >>ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> >>
> >>ep0: Eterhnet adress 00:00:00:00:00:00
> >>ep1: <3Com 35c09-Comba Etherlink III> at port 0x280-0x28f irq 15 on isa0
> >>ep1: No irq?!
> >>ep1: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
> >>device_probe_and_attach: ep1 attach returned 6
> >>
> >>
> >>i have no idea why ep1 even exists!! i read in the freebsd book that the 
> >>ep driver was buggy, anyone have any idea on this??
> >>thanks!!!!!
> >>
> >>
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