Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:16:48 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" Message-ID: <20020825021649.1FCE66BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <20020824213320.A162@attbi.com> References: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> <20020825010026.3DA986BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> <20020824213320.A162@attbi.com>
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On Saturday 24 August 2002 05:33 pm, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:00:25PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
> > > ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > >
> > >
> > > The boot did not proceed past this point. This
> > > is not the correct MAC address for this particular card.
> > >
> > > I have FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE installed on a separate
> > > partition on the same system and it works fine.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Yes, you need to get the dos utilities for that card from www.3com.com
> > boot your server with a dos boot disk, then run the utility to setup the
> > card.
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you sure about this? I have used this particular network card
> on this system for 5 years under multiple operating systems and have
> had no problems with it to date. I only see this problem with the Aug. 18
> CURRENT snapshot.
> If I reboot my system under FreeBSD-4.6, the card works fine.
> I did not need to run the DOS utilities from 3COM to get the card to work
> under FreeBSD-4.6.
>
> Thanks.
Well, your mileage may vary, but I had exactly the same error message with
one of those cards about 3 months ago. Re-running the setup utils fixed it.
If my memory serves me correctly, I also disabled PNP-OS in the bios.
Beech
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