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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:06:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
To:        hm@kts.org
Cc:        sos@freebsd.org, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
Message-ID:  <199611032006.VAA24219@gvr.win.tue.nl>
In-Reply-To: <m0vJH3c-00001lC@ernie.kts.org> from Hellmuth Michaelis at "Nov 1, 96 11:42:36 am"

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Hellmuth Michaelis wrote:
> sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> > > Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of
> > > some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied
> > > driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from
> > > Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the 
> > > machine in question.
> > 
> > Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is
> > not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why
> > billyboys os'es has trouble too. 
> 
> Probably it is one of those defective ones - the coldboot probe says its
> an early revision adaptor and the warmboot probe does not say it.

That is impossible. I think you are using the old driver where the test
for the error was done wrong.

-Guido



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