From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 23:35:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from herald.cc.purdue.edu (herald.cc.purdue.edu [128.210.11.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0CC37B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.211.202.19] by herald.cc.purdue.edu with ESMTP for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:35:33 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pweber1@purdue.edu (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 01:35:23 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: peter Subject: help with 3c595 NIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm installed 4.0, and i'm having trouble getting some of my hardware to work. the most pressing one is one of my ethernet cards, a 3c595. i'm sure that i have it configured correctly, but i just can't get it to connect to the network. # ifconfig vx0 vx0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 128.211.202.19 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 128.211.202.255 inet6 fe80::2a0:24ff:fed5:e1d3%vx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:a0:24:d5:e1:d3 # dmesg | grep vx vx0: <3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI> port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 vx0: supplying EUI64: 00:a0:24:ff:fe:d5:e1:d3 vx0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims vx0: warning: strange connector type in EEPROM. vx0: selected utp. (forced) vx0: starting DAD for fe80:0001::02a0:24ff:fed5:e1d3 vx0: DAD complete for fe80:0001::02a0:24ff:fed5:e1d3 - no duplicates found i have built a custom kernel and have all the unnecessary things removed and i've taken out almost all my other hardware. i'm sure that it's not a irq conflict with my video card (the only other card in the machine), and i'm fairly certain it's not an irq conflict with anything else. i would try setting it to a different interrupt, but when i tried using the 3c59xcfg.exe DOS utility it wouldn't let me change any settings. i know that the card works, i've been using it for quite some time now. help? also, is there any way other than 'dmesg | grep irq' to find out which devices are on which interrupts? thanks, peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ peter weber "To know that we know what we know, N9AZ and that we do not know what we do pweber1@purdue.edu not know, that is true knowledge." -Confucius ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message