From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 6:43:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE8437B7B4 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 06:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from B.Candler@pobox.com) Received: from playdog.linnet.org ([212.240.194.170]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12qyfv-000Abj-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 May 2000 13:43:19 +0000 Received: (from brian@localhost) by playdog.linnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01540 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 May 2000 14:43:14 +0100 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:43:14 +0100 From: Brian Candler To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get 3c509 to work with 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20000514144314.A1536@linnet.org> References: <20000514112545.A1181@linnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000514112545.A1181@linnet.org>; from B.Candler@pobox.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 11:25:45AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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