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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>
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