From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 10:14:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01504 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01499 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA10110; Wed, 1 May 1996 10:17:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 10:17:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christiaan Keet cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3C509 on PCI fails to probe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 May 1996, Christiaan Keet wrote: > > > I've got a 3Com 3C509 PCI card that fails to probe on boot. > > The 3c509 is not a PCI card. Do you mean the 3c590? > > On closer inspection the 3C509 is the ISA card. What I've got is the > 3C590... which is the PCI version :/ > Just slotted both into a Win95 machine again and that thinks they're > BOTH 3C509s ... go figure. Typical. Win95 probably doesn't have support -- the 590 is a pretty recent card. > Anyway, I found the vx driver for the 3C590 at > http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~fgray/if_vx.html BUT that only seems to > work with -stable not with release 2.1 That may be the case. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major