Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 00:09:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Ross Beyer <rbeyer@azstarnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C509-TPO at ep0 failing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105010006260.84551-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104301945270.17194-100000@andromeda>
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ross Beyer wrote: > I am able to use the 4.2-RELEASE install floppies to bring up the > system, and even install over FTP! When the system boots from > floppies, it sees the ep0 device, and uses it correctly. It is for > this reason that I was quite surprised to reboot the machine after > (what I thought was) a successful installation, only to find the > following errors: > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 3 on isa0 > ep0: No irq?! > ep0: ep_alloc() failed > ep0: device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 > > I searched through the mailing lists and found people that had trouble > with multiple cards or even single cards that seemed to have two > devices (ep0 and ep1), but I only get info for ep0. I checked using > the latest 3Com utility that the mailing lists suggested for other > problems, and verified that the NIC itself has PnP disabled. I've > tried a number of different combinations of the NIC PnP disabled or > not, setting the BIOS to PnP or not, and even messing with the IRQ. > Nothing that I can think of seems to help. Turn off Com Port 2 in the bios. Your ethernet card is using the same IRQ...which is 3. If you can't...set ep0 card to use a different IRQ...like 10. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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