Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:28:37 -0700 From: Sean Peck <seanp@loudcloud.com> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> Cc: Ross Beyer <rbeyer@azstarnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C509-TPO at ep0 failing Message-ID: <3AEF46A1.4CB121D9@loudcloud.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105010006260.84551-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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I am not intimately familiar with 509s on FreeBSD but on BSDI you must also make sure you set the NIC to SERVER type as well as change the IRQ using the config utility that came with the card. Nick Rogness wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ross Beyer wrote: > > > I am able to use the 4.2-RELEASE install floppies to bring up the > > system, and even install over FTP! When the system boots from > > floppies, it sees the ep0 device, and uses it correctly. It is for > > this reason that I was quite surprised to reboot the machine after > > (what I thought was) a successful installation, only to find the > > following errors: > > > > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO Etherlink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 3 on isa0 > > ep0: No irq?! > > ep0: ep_alloc() failed > > ep0: device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 > > > > I searched through the mailing lists and found people that had trouble > > with multiple cards or even single cards that seemed to have two > > devices (ep0 and ep1), but I only get info for ep0. I checked using > > the latest 3Com utility that the mailing lists suggested for other > > problems, and verified that the NIC itself has PnP disabled. I've > > tried a number of different combinations of the NIC PnP disabled or > > not, setting the BIOS to PnP or not, and even messing with the IRQ. > > Nothing that I can think of seems to help. > > Turn off Com Port 2 in the bios. Your ethernet card is using the > same IRQ...which is 3. If you can't...set ep0 card to use a > different IRQ...like 10. > > Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> > - Keep on Routing in a Free World... > "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Garbage Collection... the bell bottoms of programming.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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