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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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