Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:00:25 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: rodrigc@attbi.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" Message-ID: <20020825010026.3DA986BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> References: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58>
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On Saturday 24 August 2002 04:10 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to do a network install of
> a FreeBSD-CURRENT snapshot from August 18.
> I got the floppy images from current.freebsd.org,
> and managed to successfully install it on my system.
>
> However, when booting the system, the boot hung
> at the following place:
>
> ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x340
> irq 11 on isa0
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
>
>
> The boot did not proceed past this point. This
> is not the correct MAC address for this particular card.
>
> I have FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE installed on a separate
> partition on the same system and it works fine.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes, you need to get the dos utilities for that card from www.3com.com boot
your server with a dos boot disk, then run the utility to setup the card.
Beech
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