Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:30:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1R -vs- 3c509 : Probe failure Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960218212913.15513B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9602182147.AA18055@asimov.volant.org>
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On Sun, 18 Feb 1996 patl@asimov.volant.org wrote: > I've just installed FreeBSD 2.1R on an older 486 ISA/VESA machine; > and it is refusing to recoginze the 3Com 3c509. It is an older board > and does not appear to support Plug-n-Play. > > This is a fresh install from the CD-ROM; so I'm still using the > default GENERIC kernel; and I'm fairly confident that no other > boards are responding at 0x300. > > Initially, the probe was reporting: > > 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x210 > ep0 not found at 0x300 Does the setup program even give you an option to disable pnp? If it does I'd give it a shot. If not, try a new EtherDisk from ftp.3com.com. Some older setups didn't give you the option to disable it even though the 509s support it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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