From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 25 14:22:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA8237B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1D6E43E4A for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 70637 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Aug 2002 21:22:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" In-Reply-To: <20020825122641.A1046@attbi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I think I solved the problem. I did not need to recompile the kernel, > and I did not have to reconfigure my NIC with the 3Com DOS utilities. > > I read the following post from 1999 by Poul-Henning Kamp: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=632436+0+archive/1999/freebsd-current/19991128.freebsd-current > > Poul states that the probing of the ie and ex drivers affects the > 3Com magic config registers. > > So, what I did was, I edited /boot/device.hints and commented out a bunch > of lines and disabled a few drivers: > > ============================================================================ > #hint.ie.0.at="isa" > #hint.ie.0.port="0x300" > #hint.ie.0.irq="10" > #hint.ie.0.maddr="0xd0000" > hint.ie.0.disabled="1" > #hint.fe.0.at="isa" > #hint.fe.0.port="0x300" > #hint.le.0.at="isa" > #hint.le.0.port="0x300" > #hint.le.0.irq="5" > #hint.le.0.maddr="0xd0000" > hint.le.0.disabled="1" > ============================================================================ > > When I rebooted with the GENERIC kernel, my 3Com 509 card came up just > fine. Beat me to it. Every problem I've had in the past with a pre-PnP ISA card was due to other device probes confusing the proper device. So I typically disable all probes of any non-PnP ISA cards unless I have them. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message