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From: "Passki, Jonathan P" <jpasski@kpmg.com>
To: "'Miguel A. de Avillez'" <mavillez@amnh.org>,
	questions@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:08:41 -0400
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You may have an Ethernet card configured in your kernel that's probing it in
a way the 3Com doesn't like.  If you do have extra Ethernet NIC's in your
kernel config that you're not planning to use, remove them, and recompile.

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel A. de Avillez [mailto:mavillez@amnh.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 17:06
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE in a notebook.
> 
> Every time I boot the machine I get the following message:
> 
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: Unit failed to come ready or product ID unknown! (id 0x0)
> 
> pccard: driver allocation failed for 3Com Corporation(3C589): 
> Device not
> configured
> 
> 
> could you please tell me how to sort out this problem?
> 
> thanks for your time,
> 
> regards
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
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