Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 12:15 CDT From: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) To: wmo@digibd.com, craiga@servo.ipsilon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3c509b driver Message-ID: <m0s5G6i-000NAzC@simon.chi.il.us>
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> From freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 06:23:14 1995 > Sender: freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-questions > To: "Bill O'Hanlon" <wmo@digibd.com> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, craiga@servo.ipsilon.com > Subject: Re: 3c509b driver > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:18:19 -0700 > From: Craig Anderson <craiga@servo.ipsilon.com> > > I'm having this problem too. Several people here looked at the code > and saw nothing obvious. The rest of the error messages we see are: > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. > epprobe: ignoring model ffff > ep0 not found at 0x300 > > I tried cleaning the E1 area on the board, just for the heck of it > but it didn't help. I also tried turning "plug-n-play" mode off > in the board eeprom. That got rid of the error messages (the probe > looked like it worked) but it couldn't send/receive packets. > I'm running vanilla 2.0 (no SNAPs/patches installed yet). > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Craig > 3C509B's need to be configured under DOS to turn off PnP. If your using the 10BT connector you need to specify LINK2 in ifconfig and/or /etc/hostname.ep0 (as least for now) to enable that port. I've now got the 3Com docs for all the Etherlink III boards and I'll be adding better support for the B versions sometime soon. Steve Piette Applied Computer Technology steve@simon.chi.il.US. 7N852 Phar Lap Drive (708) 513-6920 St. Charles, IL 60175-6868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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