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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:15:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        josh b <statik@cris.com>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3com 3c509 is the wacknes!!
Message-ID:  <200007031115.e63BFZ116407@lerami.lerctr.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20000702233853.00adf460@pop3.concentric.net> "from josh b at Jul 2, 2000 11:39:06 pm"

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Grr.  Can you clear it (using the pins?)

I suspect that IRQ15 is NOT available, and the card wants it. 

LER

> bios is passworded =(
> At 01:47 AM 7/3/00 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > thats whats pissing me off! i dont know anything about it other than its a
> > > 3Com 3c509b isa..i got this old computer from a school donation and now im
> > > mesing with it and installed freebsdm, runs great..right now im setting up
> > > a dos bootdisk w/ this 3com dos util and im gona disable pnp on the card,
> > > hopefully it goes well
> >I mean in the BIOS of this computer....????
> >
> >LER
> >
> > > but At 01:23 AM 7/3/00 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > >Is it set to PCI/PNP or LEGACY ISA?
> > > >
> > > >(15 is usually the 2nd IDE controller, so You may need to
> > > >free it and tell the BIOS to use it for LEGACY ISA).
> > > >
> > > >Larry
> > > > > i think its free... in my bios setup it has 14,11, and 10 being used..
> > > > > At 01:02 AM 7/3/00 -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > > > > > > thanks for the quick reply.. i tried just device ep ( thats what it
> > > > > > says to
> > > > > > > do in to LINT also) and it just gives me this on boot up:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ep0: <3Com 35c09-Comba Etherlink III> at port 0x280-0x28f irq 
> > 15 on
> > > > isa0
> > > > > > > ep0: No irq?!
> > > > > > > ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
> > > > > >Is IRQ 15 free in the BIOS?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Larry
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > i canot figure it out...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > At 08:30 PM 7/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
> > > > > > > >You dont have to give it any arguements for the nic, just try
> > > > device ep0
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >At 08:26 PM 7/2/00 , you wrote:
> > > > > > > >>hello...im trying to get my 3com etherlink 3 to work on my 
> > 4.0 box.
> > > > > > > >>heres my kernel config for it:
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>device ep0      at      isa? port 0x300 irq 10
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>i have the rest of the nic commented out. and when i boot up i
> > > > get this:
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>ep0 at port 0x300 irq 10 on isa0
> > > > > > > >>ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>ep0: Eterhnet adress 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > > > > > > >>ep1: <3Com 35c09-Comba Etherlink III> at port 0x280-0x28f irq 15
> > > > on isa0
> > > > > > > >>ep1: No irq?!
> > > > > > > >>ep1: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
> > > > > > > >>device_probe_and_attach: ep1 attach returned 6
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>i have no idea why ep1 even exists!! i read in the freebsd book
> > > > that the
> > > > > > > >>ep driver was buggy, anyone have any idea on this??
> > > > > > > >>thanks!!!!!
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > >>
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