Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:33:39 +0200 From: "Martin" <martin@drustvo-dns.si> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 3com509b TPC not working properly Message-ID: <00e701c1eaf5$65557130$1c07f9c2@pheaton> References: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> <200204230716.g3N7GT129787@pen.homeip.net>
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Greetings.. John, gotta tell you that same happened to me.BNC didn't give its MAC address, but everything else.But i remember that once i had pci card too, but just with UTP - and it worked just fine (in fact, never had better network card). BTW: John i didn't understand you about that "manual loading module".Can you please tell me more about that? Maybe someone else knows how to fix this? Is this some kind of failure in FreeBSD?Hm.. maybe some patches.. Please, if anybody knows, let me know. Martin > 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
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