Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:39:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael J. Bryan" <mjb@www.willows.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Michael J. Bryan" <mjb@www.willows.com> Subject: Re: Etherlink III problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960411193828.11014B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604101850.LAA07569@www.willows.com>
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Michael J. Bryan wrote: > > I am having problems getting my Etherlink III (3c509) card recognized > by FreeBSD 2.1. > > I have disabled all other ethernet drivers in the kernel, including ie0. > The only ethernet driver doing any probes is ep0. > > During the probe, I get the following messages: > > 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 > ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x300 in test mode. Erase pencil mark! > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. > epprobe: ignoring model ffff > ep0 not found at 0x300 > > This card works fine in another system, running Linux. Looking at the > FreeBSD driver, it seems that the "test mode" message is bogus, with the > real problem being that it doesn't appear to be getting any useful info > from the EEPROM. Nonetheless, I looked for anything that might be a test > jumper or pencil mark, and found nothing. Use 3c5x9cfg.exe to disable Plug and Play and make sure the other settings are sane. This is an outdated error message; I believe it has been changed in future releases. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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