Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:22:32 -0100 From: Milton Moura <miltonmoura@mail.telepac.pt> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3c509B NIC trouble Message-ID: <20001205192232.B737@xtc.linux>
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Hi! I've recently installed a 3com 3c509B Combo NIC on my FreeBSD box running 4.0-RELEASE and it gets detected upon startup but the LED will not light up and I can't ping the other host on my LAN. I searched this list's archive and found several other posts discribing similar problems, and followed the instructions on some of them. I got the 3c5x9cfg.exe utility and disabled the PNP option and the card was set to port 0x300, irq 10. Now, when I boot FBSD, it shows: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready .. ep0: Ethernet adress 00:00:00:00:00 which was the same as some of the errors described on other posts. I then changed the IRQ from the setup program to all the others available, one by one, and it would either return this same error or this: ep0: no irq?! ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6) device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 at last, I tried these same steps, but changing the port to 0x210, which resulted in FBSD successfully detecting the NIC on startup but the LED would light off as soon as the message from ep0 appears. I still cannot ping the other host on my network :/ Those people who have had these same problems... How was it solved? Thank you in advance... PS: Please reply via e-mail, as I am not subscribed to -questions. - Milton Moura @ <miltonmoura@mail.telepac.pt> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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