From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 07:49:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10567 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.webwizard.net.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10526 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Received: from webwizard.org.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by dns.webwizard.net.mx (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA71968; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:48:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Message-ID: <367684C6.4DA197C5@webwizard.org.mx> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:48:22 -0600 From: Edwin Culp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" , jabc@webwizard.org.mx Subject: IBM Netfinity 3500 - Chapter 2. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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