From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 10:17: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1496C37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BB943E65 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:17:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28611; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:16:29 -0700 Message-ID: <3D78E2E9.1040001@owt.com> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:16:25 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: Toomas Aas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com NIC won't work!?! References: <200209051733.g85HXhV03709@lv.raad.tartu.ee> <05b201c255a9$2d154d80$b50d030a@PATRICK> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > From: "Toomas Aas" > >>>Sep 4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink >>> > XL> > >>>port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xe4800000-0xe480007f irq 5 at device 6.0 on >>> > pci1 > >>>Sep 4 11:51:46 obelix /kernel: xl0: reset didn't complete >>> >>This is just my guess, but IRQ 5 seems somewhat unusual choice for >> > NIC. > >>Maybe some other device is trying to use the same IRQ? Have you tried >>turning off PnP in your BIOS? Putting the NIC in different PCI slot? >> > > Toomas, > > Thanks for your response. My current NIC is an SMC, and it is running > right now on IRQ 5. I would assume that means that's OK ? > > As for PnP, and other slots, I will try that sometime, but I can't do it > too soon as the box is far away from me :( > It has been my experience that 3Com cards have a configuration program on a floppy that comes with them that you can use to change how the NIC deals with the world, i.e., pnp, irq, and etc. When you install them into non-windows based computers, you have to consider how you want them setup. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message