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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 1996 19:39:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael J. Bryan" <mjb@www.willows.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, "Michael J. Bryan" <mjb@www.willows.com>
Subject:   Re: Etherlink III problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960411193828.11014B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604101850.LAA07569@www.willows.com>

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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Michael J. Bryan wrote:

> 
> I am having problems getting my Etherlink III (3c509) card recognized
> by FreeBSD 2.1.
> 
> I have disabled all other ethernet drivers in the kernel, including ie0.
> The only ethernet driver doing any probes is ep0.
> 
> During the probe, I get the following messages:
> 
> 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300
> ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x300 in test mode. Erase pencil mark!
> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> epprobe: ignoring model ffff
> ep0 not found at 0x300
> 
> This card works fine in another system, running Linux.  Looking at the
> FreeBSD driver, it seems that the "test mode" message is bogus, with the
> real problem being that it doesn't appear to be getting any useful info
> from the EEPROM.  Nonetheless, I looked for anything that might be a test
> jumper or pencil mark, and found nothing.

Use 3c5x9cfg.exe to disable Plug and Play and make sure the other 
settings are sane.  

This is an outdated error message; I believe it has been changed in 
future releases. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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