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Date:      Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:45:31 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ep0 driver oddity
Message-ID:  <3BE216DB.E2B9B40A@owt.com>
References:  <20011101224034.A46105@ussenterprise.ufp.org>

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Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 
> I broke out a really old card to make a cheap solution work, and
> now I'm confused.  It's an old 3c509 ISA card, which has been set
> to 0x300, irq 5.  Those don't conflict, so no issue there.
> 
> Building a kernel with "device ep0" found it, but didn't like it
> because it wasn't at the default IRQ 10.  So, I rebuilt a kernel
> with
> 
> device          ep0     at isa? port 0x300 irq 5
> 
> Here's where my confusion came in, I get this in dmesg:
> 
> ep0 at port 0x300 irq 5 on isa0
> ep0: Ethernet address 00:20:af:6a:d8:d6
> ep1: <3Com 3C509-TP EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0
> ep1: No irq?!
> ep1: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
> device_probe_and_attach: ep1 attach returned 6
> 
> ep0 seems to work ok, and there is no ep1.  I'm not sure why it's
> auto-looking for an additional card.  If I leave the 0 off:

It has been a while since I setup my 3C509 but what I remember is
having to turn off PNP on the card.

Kent

> 
> device  ep      at isa? port 0x300 irq 5
> 
> config barfs, even though the default is "device ep".
> 
> I get the feeling that if I set this via config I'd be ok, but I don't
> have easy access to the console of this particular machine.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something really simple, but how can I set
> ep0 in the kernel config and not get an ep1 along with it?
> Alternatives (eg, loader.conf or something) would be fine, I know
> nothing about that.
> 
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