Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:05:09 +600 CDT From: "Larry Dolinar" <LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3c509-TP, also sysinstall Message-ID: <B5407C5AFA@bldg1.croute.com>
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| Date sent: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 05:41:20 -0700 (MST)
| From: Douglas Russell <russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
| 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
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