From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 07:06:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01767 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:06:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA01735 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 07:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01143; Mon, 25 Mar 96 09:05:59 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 25 Mar 96 9:05:35 +600 Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.13); Mon, 25 Mar 96 9:05:15 +600 From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:05:09 +600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 3c509-TP, also sysinstall Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-Id: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk | Date sent: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:41:20 -0700 (MST) | From: Douglas Russell | Subject: 3c509-TP, also sysinstall | 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 What? You mean you've got a twisted-pair card hooked into a media translator (UTP-to-BNC)? Those things are expensive. | (2.1.0R), seemigly regardless of what IRQ/port address I set it to. First of all, use the 3C5X9CFG program from DOS and see what your settings are; irq 5 isn't a bad choice, unless maybe you have a sound card, since most people don't have two parallel ports. 'boot -c' and go 'visual': what does config think? Set it the same. | 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. You did test the card afterwards in 3C5X9CFG, right? OK, I should have read ahead: is PnP turned on? Turn it off. I've used this in 486's mostly. If you're using a Pentium, check your BIOS settings under PCI and PnP (if applicable): make sure the BIOS knows which IRQs are being used by ISA cards, so they won't be assigned to something else. | | 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... This sounds like bad hardware mojo, or IRQ reassigning. | | 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. I use this for a network backup, and haven't experienced any of the alleged buggy behavior. (references to sysinstall deleted) hth, larry