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Date:      Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:01:42 +0100
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        alissa bader <mol666@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help please!  with 3Com509 NIC
Message-ID:  <20000919170142.H98789@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000919155559.13087.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>; from mol666@yahoo.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:55:59AM -0700
References:  <20000919155559.13087.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:55:59AM -0700, alissa bader wrote:
> hey there all.  I am running FreeBSD 3.5-Stable
> release.  No problems with it whatsoever except for
> the fact I can't get my !$^QTG NIC card to work.  3Com
> 509. 
> 
> The link lights come up all nice and happy on my
> machine.  I have the 3c5x9cfg.exe program on a
> bootable floppy (no DOS partition on my machine) and
> that works perfectly too.  Tests go through ok.  All
> done on my  machine.
> 
> I have tried configuring my kernel to recognize the
> device (ep0, if I am not mistaken).  Device ep0
> doesn't come up in the startup script messages at all.
>  When I try to bring it up by hand using ifconfig, I
> get "device ep0 not configured."
>  
> argh!  what am I doing wrong?  this is driving me
> nuts.
>  
> and if it turns out this NIC card is truly not worth
> f'ing with anymore, I'd appreciate if ya'll could
> offer me some solutions to something good that works. 
> :>

AFAIR this is a ISA NIC, have you turned off plug and play? I remember
my old 3c509 card working under openbsd once that was turned, best of
luck...

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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