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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Cannot use my 3c595 card
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Gavin Cameron wrote:

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a machine that has a 3c595 in it. The
> card is connected to a 10MBit hub.
> 
> I've tried installing 2.1.5, 2.2-960801-SNAP and 2.2-961006-SNAP with no luck.
> 
> 2.2-961006-SNAP gives me the message
> 	vx0: eeprom failed to come ready
> 
> The card works brilliantly under Windows 95.

Have you tried a cold boot?  Somehow the card is
getting stuck in a state where it won't listen to FreeBSD.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major