From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 20 21: 5:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9CF37BAC8 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id VAA13459; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:05:13 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13457; Mon Mar 20 21:05:13 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA00547; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdgJE539; Mon Mar 20 21:05:01 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA41566; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:26:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003210426.UAA41566@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdC41561; Mon Mar 20 20:26:18 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: mmercer@ipass.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ep0 eeprom failed to come ready... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:05:42 EST." <38D6F515.D0536435@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:26:17 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <38D6F515.D0536435@ipass.net>, "Michael E. Mercer" writes: > hello, > > I have a 3com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III card... > I have just upgraded my pentium 200 MMX machine to 4.0-Stable. > Everything seems to be going well except that it fails with > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. > last line repeated 4 more times... > > then later during the boot process it finds the same card on a different port > and everything is fine... except now I can not get to the outside world... > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa0 > > What is the problem here.... normally with me it is user error so let me know > ... I had the same problem. You have two solutions to choose from: 1. Build a custom kernel w/o unnecessary network devices. 2. boot -c and delete all unnecessary network devices. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message