From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 0:16:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E61137B417 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g3N7GT129787; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:16:29 -0800 Message-Id: <200204230716.g3N7GT129787@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: martin@drustvo-dns.si, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com509b TPC not working properly Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:16:29 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> In-Reply-To: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 22 April 2002 09:39 pm, martin@drustvo-dns.si wrote: > Greetings.. > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.4 and compiled the kernel with support for > 3com509b network card.It seems that because the cark has UTP and BNC > connectors, freebsd recognizes this card as two cards.I never saw that > before, but in my dmesg after booting it looked something like this: > ed0: <3com 509b bla bla> at port 0x300-30f irq 5 on isa0 > ed1: <3com 509b bla bla> at port 0x210-21f irq 10 on isa0 > My question is, why is this happening?Is this normal?I mean does it happen > all the time? > Anyway, i'm not able to compile kernel with card support, so would please > anyone give me some clues about how to set this? > Thanks in advance. It happened to me too. That was so annoying when I ran into it that I switched to another card. Here is what I saw Apr 14 23:07:20 /kernel: ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 Apr 14 23:07:20 /kernel: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. Apr 14 23:07:20 last message repeated 4 times Apr 14 23:07:20 /kernel: ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 Note it never did report its mac address... The a bit further down the log it tries on irq5: Apr 14 23:07:21 /kernel: ep1: <3Com 3C509B-Combo EtherLink III (PnP)> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 5 on isa0 Apr 14 23:07:21 /kernel: ep1: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:dc:dd:23 That time it found it. I was never happy with that setup and was never able to obtain a lease via dhcp so I swapped it for 3c905 a pci card which worked right away: Apr 15 21:45:00 bridgestone /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c900-COMBO Etherlink XL> port 0x6000-0x603f irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0 Apr 15 21:45:00 bridgestone /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:60:da:b8 Apr 15 21:45:00 bridgestone /kernel: xl0: selecting 10baseT transceiver, half duplex I didn't compile it into the kernel, just loaded the module. (Which it figured out how to do by itself). -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message