From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 21:20:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA07919 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 21:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07895 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 21:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA29467 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:20:56 -0600 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:20:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3c509 problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm having a problem with a 3com 3c509 combo card. When I stick the card in and boot up FreeBSD (2.1R) it gives the message: 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x300 in test mode, Erase pencil mark! ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. epprobe: ignoring model ffff ep0 not found at 0x300 Thus no ep0 device is available for ifconfig. I have tried two different slots and two different 3c509 cards to no avail. However, the weird thing is when I put in a non combo 3c509 (Just AUI & 10BaseT ports, no BNC) it works fine (not good when you run BNC on your network, have to use a transciever). I remember seeing mention of this error a while back, but could not remember nor dig up any additional information on it. Any ideas? TIA, - Steve