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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:05:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Sri Ramkrishna <sramkris@ichips.intel.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem recognizing 3COM Etherlink 3c509B
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970922220426.6177W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199709222137.OAA02955@ichips.intel.com>

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On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks, I think I'm cursed with not getting my ethernet cards to
> work under FreeBSD.  I used to have a Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 board
> but I was unable to get it working after a plethora of patches to
> the kernel drivers and basically after fooling with it off an on for
> 3 months, I have given up.  (I probably should have tried FreeBSD-Current)
> 
> Now I have a 3Com Etherlink III.  I'm having problems getting it recognized.
> I've downloaded the Ether disk from the 3com site and used it to turn PnP off
> and used the defaults of IRQ 10, 300 as it's register.  During the probe, FreeBSD
> comes back with:
> 
> detected 16 <3com blah blah>  at 0x200 (repeated 16 times)
> ep0: not found at 0x300
> 
> If I set it to 0x200, it tells me that I should turn off PnP!  Even
> though I already did that.

Are you _sure_ you did?  It's acting like it's still enabled.

> Here are some curios however.  When I boot into win95, and check to see 
> what register it's using, it won't say anything about what IRQ it's using
> only the registers, which were 220-23F I believe.  This leads me to believe
> that PnP is still active because no matter what I do with the DOS program
> to configure it, it still works under Win95.  Can anybody help me out
> here?  I've somewhat hit a wall of things to try.

That is what Win95 does if you use the PnP driver on the 3com.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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