From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 13:31:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA15070 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guardian.guard.ncsc.mil (guardian.guard.ncsc.mil [144.51.52.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA15063 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 13:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by guardian.guard.ncsc.mil (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA20529; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:15:08 -0400 Received: from depot(144.51.53.1) by guardian via smap (V1.3) id sma020499; Thu Jul 18 16:14:55 1996 Received: from smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil (smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil [144.51.54.211]) by depot.missi.ncsc.mil (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA18211; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:11:28 -0400 Received: by smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil with Microsoft Mail id <31EEC57F@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil>; Thu, 18 Jul 96 16:15:11 PDT From: "Paisley, Todd G." To: Doug White , "Paisley, Todd G." Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 16:14:00 PDT Message-ID: <31EEC57F@smtpgw.missi.ncsc.mil> Encoding: 46 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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: 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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