Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:16:29 -0800 From: John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> To: martin@drustvo-dns.si, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com509b TPC not working properly Message-ID: <200204230716.g3N7GT129787@pen.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> References: <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si>
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On Monday 22 April 2002 09:39 pm, martin@drustvo-dns.si wrote: > Greetings.. > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.4 and compiled the kernel with support for > 3com509b network card.It seems that because the cark has UTP and BNC > connectors, freebsd recognizes this card as two cards.I never saw that > before, but in my dmesg after booting it looked something like this: > ed0: <3com 509b bla bla> at port 0x300-30f irq 5 on isa0 > ed1: <3com 509b bla bla> at port 0x210-21f irq 10 on isa0 > My question is, why is this happening?Is this normal?I mean does it happen > all the time? > Anyway, i'm not able to compile kernel with card support, so would please > anyone give me some clues about how to set this? > Thanks in advance. 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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