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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 1996 03:30:12 +0200 (EET)
From:      tomppa@fidata.fi (Tomi Vainio)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3Com Etherlink II/16 device timeouts
Message-ID:  <199602210130.DAA05886@zeta.fidata.fi>

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Andreas Schulz writes:
 > 
 > > >   I'm getting the following error with my 3Com card:
 > > > 
 > > > ed0: device timeout
 > > 
 > > Wrong device.. :-)
 > > 
 > > You want to configure the ep0 device for this card.
 > 
 > No, he says Etherlink II/16 not Etherlink III. The ep0 driver
 > is for the Etherlink III ( 3COM 509 and 579) cards. The Etherlink II
 > is the 3COM 3C503 and the ed0 driver is correct for that. 
 > I suspect that the card jumpers and settings disagree with the values
 > given in FreeBSD.
 > Also some other ethernet driver may incorrectly hit that card. Boot
 > with a -c flag at the boot prompt and disable all other cards that
 > also use the 0x300 address and you don't have in the system. I assume
 > that the card is default configured to address 0x300 for the I/O port.
 > 
I think that Etherlink II/16 is known as 3c507 so you should use
ie-driver with it. I have this card and I can check what driver I'm
using with it.

  Tomppa



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