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From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Cannot use my 3c595 card
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 09:41:35 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961009112627.947E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Oct 9, 96 11:27:34 am
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> 
> > 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.
> 

Cold boot, warm boot. I can never get the card working.

Gavin