From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 07:05:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA13106 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from comput.cs.mci.com (comput.cs.mci.com [166.37.12.208]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13101 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 07:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by comput.cs.mci.com; id AA01222; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:05:39 -0700 Message-Id: <31346F43.41C6@comput.cs.mci.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 08:05:39 -0700 From: "Stephen P. Burch" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: invalid opcode Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I have a 3com Etherlink III card 3C509B-COMBO that didn't configure References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk invalid opcode wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 sburch@comput.cs.mci.com wrote: > > > I have a 3com Etherlink III card 3C509B-COMBO that didn't configure when I > > booted my system. I am just learning UNIX and am not sure how to get it to > > configure. What should I do? looking at the documentation I see that the > > Steve, Lost in FreeBSD land. :-) > > Did ep0 just not show up when you booted it? Do you have win95 on this > same machine? Try booting the kernel with the -c option (enter at boot > prompt), and type visual when you get to the second prompt. > > == Chris Layne ============================================================== > == coredump@nervosa.com ================= http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump == Two things I did. 1st, went into the 3C509B-COMBO install disk and found that was set to plug and pray. There was the option to turn off the p&p, which I did and then I reconfigured the adaptor. 2nd. I booted Freebsd with -c and went visual. found that the base address was set at 300h in the config and that the actual base address of the adaptor was 340h. I modified that and Q out of config. The system booted up SEEING the card. Thanks for the help. -- ----------------------------------------------- comment of the week: Blessed are the Flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape! Steve Burch -----------------------------------------------