Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:48:22 -0600 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> To: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, jabc@webwizard.org.mx Subject: IBM Netfinity 3500 - Chapter 2. Message-ID: <367684C6.4DA197C5@webwizard.org.mx>
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I finally have the IBM Netfinity 3500 that I wrote about two weeks ago, working well, although not the way I would have wanted. The first thing I had to do was to disable the APM completely and the USB (just in case). I could not use the onboard 100/10 EtherExpress and had to physically change the jumper on the board to disable it. I wasn't able to use an EtherExpress Pro 100+ card at all. It would probe perfectly but when it came to ifconfig the machine would freeze, no panic, just death and silence. I was able to get one ne2000 card to work reasonably well but when I installed the second, it would work sometimes and then start with "device time out". I finally gave up on them. As a last resort, I tried two 3com595 100/10 cards that I had left over when I changed to the EtherExpress 100 and much to my surprise, they work perfectly. I have no idea why they work nor why the EtherExpress doesn't nor why I wasn't able to get two ne2000 clones to work together. (Tried everything, except the right thing:-) like disabling the on board sound card, serial ports, etc. etc. I'm not planing on doing anything else to the machine, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", but I would be interested in other peoples experiences with the IBM Netfinity 3500. Mike Smith told me in a previous mail that the problem with the onboard EtherExpress was a known problem. If anyone has better solutions and I'm sure someone must have :-), please let me know what you did. Thanks ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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