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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 14:43:14 +0100
From:      Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't get 3c509 to work with 4.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20000514144314.A1536@linnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000514112545.A1181@linnet.org>; from B.Candler@pobox.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:25:45AM %2B0100
References:  <20000514112545.A1181@linnet.org>

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On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:25:45AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> I have installed 4.0-RELEASE on an old 486 ISA/VLB machine. I've put in a
> 3c509 ethernet card, but I simply cannot get it to be recognised. dmesg does
> not report anything do do with 'ep' at all, and 'ifconfig -a' doesn't list
> it.

Doh! After adding printf's and discovering that junk was being read from the
ID register, it turned out to be a hardware problem: changing the AT bus
speed from CPUCLK/2 to CPUCLK/4 in the BIOS fixed it.

Sorry for wasting everyone's time :-(

Brian.


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