From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 23:11: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.binep.ac.ru (ns.binep.ac.ru [193.233.37.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C920937B6D2 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Received: from serv2.binep.ac.ru (serv2 [193.233.44.77]) by ns.binep.ac.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA70239; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:13:06 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Reply-To: "Igor B. Bykhalo" From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" To: , "josh b" Subject: Re: 3com 3c509 is the wacknes!! Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:06:51 +0300 Message-ID: <01bfe4bd$42c7b780$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0913.2206 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0913.2200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 You need just device ep0 or even better, device ep line in the kernel config file. Read on... > >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!!!!! > There is a chance that you need to download the latest 3c5x9cfg.exe (DOS) config utility from 3Com. It is needed to disable PnP stuff in your card. Download Etherdisk#2 from http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509/3c5096.1.htm run 3c5x9cfg.exe, disable PnP, and you'll be fine. Good luck, Igor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message