From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 15:07:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26326 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 15:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nol.net (root@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA26320; Sun, 19 May 1996 15:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dazed.nol.net (blh@dazed.nol.net [206.126.32.101]) by nol.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17171; Sun, 19 May 1996 17:07:10 -0500 (CDT) X-AUTH: NOLNET SENDMAIL AUTH Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 17:07:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: John Clark , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com Support? -- NOT In-Reply-To: <199605191947.MAA09794@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 19 May 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > John Clark wrote: > > > > FreeBSD Group, > > > > I was hoping someone could help me with my 3c509 woes. I have read many > > many questions about the 3c509 card, with no good answers for my problem. > > The largest source of problems seems to be those who are having irq trouble. > > This is not my trouble as I have reconfigured, and recompiled at irq's 5, 7, > > and 10 (orig) with no joy. > > i have a 3com 3C509 and have used it for a couple years now. > what can i do to help you? > > if you are using 10baseT, please remember to add -link2 to > the ifconfig line for ep0. > Now thats interesting, I use 3c509's at home and at work and didn't have to add a -link2 to anything. In fact here is the ifconfig statement from my /etc/syconfig: ifconfig_ep0="inet 206.126.50.111 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 206.126.50.255" Its pretty much the same with all my fbsd boxes, and to be honest, I've never had a problem with it, now my kingston nic card... well.. thats another story. Oh yeah, here's the relevant chunk from my kernel config file: device ep0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 12 vector epintr I've come to the conclusion that trying to put a 3c509 on port 0x300 is just plain silly, no matter the OS, every manufacturer and their brother wants to sit on 0x300 by default. Brett