Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 16:14:00 PDT From: "Paisley, Todd G." <tgpaisl@missi.ncsc.mil> To: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>, "Paisley, Todd G." <tgpaisl@missi.ncsc.mil> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card Message-ID: <31EEC57F@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil>
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Ooops! My fingers weren't working right. I meant 3Com 3C590 PCI ethernet card, not a 3C509 ISA card. I don't know how to set up a PCI card with Unix. Todd. ---------- From: Doug White To: Paisley, Todd G. Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card Date: Wednesday, July 17, 1996 9:30PM Return-Path: <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Paisley, Todd G." <tgpaisl@missi.ncsc.mil> cc: FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card In-Reply-To: <31ED5FED@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil> Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960717213016.230A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
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