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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:26:17 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        mmercer@ipass.net
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ep0 eeprom failed to come ready... 
Message-ID:  <200003210426.UAA41566@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:05:42 EST." <38D6F515.D0536435@ipass.net> 

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In message <38D6F515.D0536435@ipass.net>, "Michael E. Mercer" writes:
> hello,
> 
> I have a 3com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III card...
> I have just upgraded my pentium 200 MMX machine to 4.0-Stable.
> Everything seems to be going well except that it fails with
> ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> last line repeated 4 more times...
> 
> then later during the boot process it finds the same card on a different port
> and everything is fine... except now I can not get to the outside world...
> 
> ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x210-0x21f  irq 10 on isa0
> 
> What is the problem here.... normally with me it is user error so let me know
> ...

I had the same problem.  You have two solutions to choose from:

1.  Build a custom kernel w/o unnecessary network devices.

2.  boot -c and delete all unnecessary network devices.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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