From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 08:25:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05702 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05685 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA00823; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:22:39 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA05497; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:22:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA09864; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:05:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20671; Wed, 23 Dec 98 17:10:30 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA105828953; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:02:33 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 98 17:02:21 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <00f801be2e8a$9145fc40$944845d1@Samantha.mi.verio.net> Subject: Re: Problems with 3C509 card Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dhammis@verio.net Cc: john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, The ep driver is buggy, but I do use it with absolutely no troubles on at least two machines (in fact, I had more machine with 3Com boards in the past) . The big trouble with the 3C509 boards is the setup of the media and the I/O address. I have a DOS-bootable diskette with a 3com-supplied tool (its exact name is 3c5x9cfg.exe) just for this. After setting this parameters installing and using FreeBSD went well. (just my 0.02) TfH > The driver for the 3com card has been known to be buggy for a long time. I > myself have not been able to get it to work and I'm not sure of anyone else > who has. If there is someone on the list who figured out a way around it > then please let us know. > > Try swapping out the card with a different type of card, preferably Linksys > or Intel and see if it works that way. > > --Damon > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Morgan Salomon > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 8:15 AM > Subject: Problems with 3C509 card > > > > > >Hiya > > > >I am setting up an HP Vectra with a 3Com 509 network card. > > > >Interestingly enough, the system finds the card nicely and installs > >per ftp just as it should. However, on system boot after install, it > >gets to the point where it says "Doing initial network setup: hostname" > >and freezes and stays right there. > > > >I assume I gave ifconfig some goofy arguments during install by ftp, > >but I'm wondering whether anyone can help me around this? > > > >Thanks, > > > >-John > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message