From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 11:50:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29938 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.willows.com (www.willows.com [204.31.19.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA29932 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mjb@localhost) by www.willows.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id LAA07569; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:50:09 -0700 From: "Michael J. Bryan" Message-Id: <199604101850.LAA07569@www.willows.com> Subject: Etherlink III problems To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mjb@www.willows.com (Michael J. Bryan) Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having problems getting my Etherlink III (3c509) card recognized by FreeBSD 2.1. I have disabled all other ethernet drivers in the kernel, including ie0. The only ethernet driver doing any probes is ep0. During the probe, I get the following messages: 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x300 in test mode. Erase pencil mark! ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. epprobe: ignoring model ffff ep0 not found at 0x300 This card works fine in another system, running Linux. Looking at the FreeBSD driver, it seems that the "test mode" message is bogus, with the real problem being that it doesn't appear to be getting any useful info from the EEPROM. Nonetheless, I looked for anything that might be a test jumper or pencil mark, and found nothing. The card in question does not have a boot ROM installed. Unfortunately, I do not have any hardware manuals for this card. Any suggestions on what I might try? Thanks in advance...