Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:09:51 +1300 From: philip.jensen@nzdb.com To: jodak@csc.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 3c509 Problem Message-ID: <4C2567A8.006E73F5.00@nzdb.com>
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Hi The 3c509 driver is listed as *buggy*. However I would like to point you to an posting I wrote when I succeeded with my 3c509. If you go the following web site you can do some searches for other posting/problems --> http://www.freebsd.org/support.html http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/cgi-bin/newsread?156772 ===start post === Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Success getting 3c509 working... Hi Just wanted to share my experience getting 3c509-combo card working with FreeBSD. I was having a significant amount of trouble, and after searching http://www.freebsd.org almost gave up when I read the 3c509 driver was buggy having already tried a number of different settings on the card. Anyways I continued to pursue a solution. What was really interesting was /var/log/messages showed me it found the 3c509 card at io=300 and irq=10, it even returned the Ethernet hardware address, which really impressed me (I am new to FreeBSD having cut my teeth on SCO Unix/Xenix 12 years ago, if anyone remembers that). But I still could not ping anything else on the network, even though running the DOS based 3c5x9cfg Echo-server utility showed the card could communicate with another card on the network, so no hardware or cabling problem. So to cut a long story short, to fix the problem I ran the 3c5x9cfg programs Auto-configure utility, it changed the irq to 5. Then I modified the kernel configuration making irq=5, then recompiled the kernel, 45 minutes later (I only have a 486DX66), and voila! NB: If I tried to force irq=10 (which was how the kernel was configured) the 3c5x9cfg utility would complain about conflicts, even though checking /var/log/messages showed no other devices on irq=10. Anyways I hope this helps someone else with 3c509 problems. Steps:- 1. Run DOS based utility 3c5x9cfg Auto-configure which sets the io and irq for the card. 2. Configure the kernel with the correct io and irq settings for the card per the 3c5x9cfg utility, and recompile. cheers Philip Jensen ===end post=== If you don't understand my posting, please feel free to e-mail me. hope this helps Phil J On 07/07/99 01:06:50 jodak wrote: >Dear Sirs: > >Experienced a problem setting up the 3Com 3c509B ethernet card (ISA bus) >under FreeBSD 3.2 (Walnut Creek CD-ROM). Card was set with IRQ = 10 and IO >= 0x300. FreeBSD seemed to recognise the card correctly and added the ep0 >driver. However, when ifconfig is executed (ifconfig ep0 inet 192.168.0.2 >netmask 255.255.255.0) the system hangs completely and needs to be >physically rebooted. The system itself is very straightforward (Pentium >233, IDE CDROM, Floppy, IDE HD) and is known to work. No drivers were >modified or disabled during installation. > >Any assistance resolving this problem would be appreciated. Please send any >response to jodak@csc.com. > >Thank you, > >John Odak > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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