From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 9:24:54 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 87FAD15421 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:24:50 -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 BAA57997; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:56:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907061626.BAA57997@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 3Com 3c509 Problem In-Reply-To: <852567A6.00461E14.00@csc.com> from "jodak@csc.com" at "Jul 6, 1999 09:06:50 am" To: jodak@csc.com Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 01:56:26 +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 John, > Experienced a problem setting up the 3Com 3c509B ethernet card (ISA bus) > under FreeBSD 3.2 (Walnut Creek CD-ROM). Card was set with IRQ = 10 and IO > = 0x300. FreeBSD seemed to recognise the card correctly and added the ep0 > driver. However, when ifconfig is executed (ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.0.2 > netmask 255.255.255.0) the system hangs completely and needs to be > physically rebooted. The system itself is very straightforward (Pentium > 233, IDE CDROM, Floppy, IDE HD) and is known to work. No drivers were > modified or disabled during installation. I'm not sure if this is still relevant but I notice in the LINT kernel configuration file that comes with 3.2 there is the following comment: # ep: 3Com 3C509 (buggy) The only other insight I can provide is that I have a 3c509b which works perfectly (although its a pci card and uses the xl0 driver). -- 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