From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 9:15: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F62915461 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA57828; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:46:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907061616.BAA57828@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 3.2-RELEASE Installation trouble In-Reply-To: <2FE00ED4D0AFD211ABCB0090273C538A0AA9@tisms1.thepoint.net> from Troy Compton at "Jul 6, 1999 11:33:06 am" To: Troy Compton Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:46:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Troy, > I'm having quite a difficult time getting 3.2-RELEASE to recognize my > 3C589C. I have searched the mailing list archives for clues and have > come up with nothing. I *think* I am following the tips that I was able > to find. > > My hardware is an HP Omnibook 5000CTS Pentium 120 and (obviously) a 3Com > 3C589C. I've booted it to DOS and used the 3Com utility to manually set > the IRQ to 10 and the IO address to 300, also noting the Mem IO address > (which in my case is DE00h). I then booted the 3.2-RELEASE installation > disks and modified the zp0 driver from mem IO from 0xd8000 to 0xde00, > left IRQ and IO address alone and deactivated all other NIC drivers > (also deactivated all other unnecessary drivers for my hardware config). > Once I get to the main installation screen, I alt-F2 over (with my > fingers crossed) and the only network device found is lp0. Take a look at http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ Your 3C589C is in the supported cards list using the ep0 driver. PAO is specifically targetted at "mobile computing", e.g. laptops, so you might find better luck with it. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message