From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 9: 2:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B1F37B422 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id RAA08496; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:01:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:01:42 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: alissa bader Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help please! with 3Com509 NIC Message-ID: <20000919170142.H98789@irrelevant.org> References: <20000919155559.13087.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000919155559.13087.qmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>; from mol666@yahoo.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:55:59AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message