From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 23:23:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.binep.ac.ru (ns.binep.ac.ru [193.233.37.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097F41511D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Received: from unknown (serv2 [193.233.44.77]) by ns.binep.ac.ru (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA16754; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:25:24 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Message-ID: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: owner@thenetwork.it Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" Subject: Re: 3c509B config (was: Many Problems.) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 99 10:15:57 PDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1251"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Probably this is late response, but anyway... On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:29:45 +0100 wrote: [...] >But I could not configure my ethernet card: 3COM 3C509B-TX >The error message is: EP0 port 0x300 not found. >I changed all IO Port Address but the ethernet card is not found. >Reading the handbook the 3c509 is buggy.It is possible??? [...] I'm using 3 these cards in our server and they work good. (ISA Etherlink-III 3C-509B). The only known bugginess with them is that sometimes they have problems with buffers allocation, but I can't recall exact situation - better You search mail archives at www.freebsd.org. As for configuration: On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:05:17 +0400 (MSD) "Pavel V. Antipov" wrote: [...] >If ISA then boot with DOS and check the PORT and IRQ witn help >configuration program for your netcard. After that set same PORT >and IRQ in FreeBSD configuration. [...] Right, but I'll add more: You should make Dos bootable floppy and use 3c5x9cfg.exe to config interrupts, ports, media and (IMPORTANT !) "optimization" : in config program there must be Optimization entry - set it to "SERVER" On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:05:59 +0200 Stefano Riva wrote: [...] > FreeBSD 2.2.7 doesn't support 3C509B cards (3C509 only). You need a Mmmm... 6 month ago my server was using FreeBSD 2.1.7 and these cards were there... Maybe Stefano meant 3C905B... Regards, Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message