From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 24 18: 0:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F40037B4C6 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCC143E42 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 18:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@sinbad.net) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DA986BF; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:00:26 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net Organization: Sinbad Network Communications Inc. To: rodrigc@attbi.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:00:25 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> In-Reply-To: <20020825001032.JUGF14185.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc58> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020825010026.3DA986BF@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 24 August 2002 04:10 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to do a network install of > a FreeBSD-CURRENT snapshot from August 18. > I got the floppy images from current.freebsd.org, > and managed to successfully install it on my system. > > However, when booting the system, the boot hung > at the following place: > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x340 > irq 11 on isa0 > 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: 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. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message