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From: "Michael J. Bryan" <mjb@www.willows.com>
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Subject: Re: Etherlink III problems
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In-Reply-To: <199604101850.LAA07569@www.willows.com> from "Michael J. Bryan" at Apr 10, 96 11:50:09 am
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> I am having problems getting my Etherlink III (3c509) card recognized
> by FreeBSD 2.1.
> [...]
> 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

I answered my own question.  It turns out there was an IRQ conflict
with the card at an IRQ of 10.  I moved it to 5, changed the kernel
parameters, and it now works just fine.