From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 6: 9:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cheyenne.infinitecnetworks.com (unknown [64.217.101.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0F237B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:09:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by CHEYENNE with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:09:15 -0600 Message-ID: From: "Bouchard, David" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: device_probe_and_attach question Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:09:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've recently completed an instalation of FreeBSD but I have one problem. > I can't seem to get the ethernet card to work. > > During boot-up, the messages I get are: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 > xl0: couldn't map ports/memory > device_probe_and_attach: xl0 attach returned 6 > > I used the 3com utility to get the following information about the > card: > Interrupt Level: 11 > I/O Base: FC40 > Slot # 16 > Ethernet Address: 00600815F3E6 > The information I got from doing a uname -s is: FreeBSD systest.infinitecnetworks.com 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Nov 15 14:43:51 CST 2000 root@systest.infinitecnetworks.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SYSTEST i386 As you can tell, I have recompiled the kernel (it didn't work before that, either). I made sure I had the miibus support loaded when I did this as well. I have also tried loading the miibus support as a module, and that hasn't worked either. No matter what I have tried, I continue to get the above message. > Any suggestions? I've looked in the handbook, searched the mailing list > archives, and through various FAQs to no avail. > > Thanks in advance, > David > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message