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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 19:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Hardware problems with NICs
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980830195037.jobaldwi@vt.edu>

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Hi all,

I've been having some problems with my el cheapo 3Com 3c503 adapters. 
Originally, I started out with 1 adapter with a BNC port at io port 0x300,
memory 0xd800, and irq 5.  This worked fine.  I then place another 3Com 3c503
with a UTP port (intending for this machine to be a gateway) at io port 0x310,
memory 0xc800, and irq 3 (I disabled com2).  Both of the adapters passed the
3Com diagnostics, but FreeBSD does not detect either one.  Further, after I
took out the card with the UTP port, FreeBSD doesn't detect the old one that it
used to.  If I put a 3c509 in the machine, the GENERIC kernel will recognize
that card fine but it won't find any combination of 3c503's that are in the
machine.  Note that for every configuration I tried, the cards all passed the
3Com diags, but the kernel did not recognize the cards.  The machine is a
Am486dx4/100, btw.  And now it doesn't even work with the same config that used
to work earlier. :(  If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate
them.

Also, as a side note, I've been getting some strange errors on boot up
regarding my first com port.  Here is an extract of my dmesg:

...
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: irq maps 0x1 0x1 0x1 0x1
sio0: probe failed test(s); 0 1 2 4 6 7 9
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 8250
sio1: disabled, not probed
...

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John Baldwin
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