Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:41:20 -0700 (MST) From: Douglas Russell <russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3c509-TP, also sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960325052352.21407E-100000@fsb>
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First question. I've got a 3c509-TP card, used with an external BNC tranciever. My 486 machine doesn't seem to be able to recognise it (2.1.0R), seemigly regardless of what IRQ/port address I set it to. Windows95 does find the card just fine, as does the DOS NDIS driver, etc. Interestingly enough, Windows95 does not show, or make any refrence to an IRQ when using the card, and I also noticed that when I switched the card (using the 3c5x9cfg program) to, say port 280, that Windows still worked just fine, even though it was still set to 300. I tried the card in another machine (a P150) and FreeBSD finds it just fine. (Although something is strange with the interrupt #s, as when the card is set to IRQ 11, BSD finds it at IRQ 10). Windows95 works fine as well, but it DOES find, show, etc, that the card is using IRQ 10... I know the driver is still buggy, but does anyone have any idea what is going on here? If not, perhaps this strange behavior should be passed on to whomever is working on the 3c509 driver. My second question is with sysinstall. Are you not supposed to be able to go back into Sysconfig and change your interface settings (ie, add a new interface)? I tried that the other day on one machine, and it wouldn't go back into the interfaces menu. We couldn't set up ppp when we installed BSD, as the serial ports had to be disabled for the mach 64. It's not really a big deal to do it manually, although ppp is a bit of a pain, I just thought it was suposed to work. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I think it may have problems with, say, going back and trying to install XFree after the system is installed, as well, which would be nice to ba able to do. (I accidentally named the directory wrong in the DOS partition, so it never installed X, then I had to go back and do it manually because sysinstall wouldn't do it.) Boy, the install process sure is slick compared to, say 2.0, though! Later...... <Doug>
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