From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 21:30:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21691 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.180]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21683 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00239; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Paisley, Todd G." cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card In-Reply-To: <31ED5FED@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Paisley, Todd G. wrote: > We did some upgrades to one of our servers and put in a 3Com 3C509 PCI > ethernet card. FreeBSD 2.1 installed just beautifully except for one minor > problem. It can't find the ethernet card. Is there a trick to getting this > to work with this card? Even at boot up when it is looking at the cards on > the PCI bus, it doesn't list the card as an option. Thought it might be a > bad vard, but a known good card does the exact same thing? Any thoughts? Boot -c and configure ep0 to the proper irq and base address. And turn off Plug n Pray. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major