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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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