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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 1997 14:56:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        S300A@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with 3C589 (not D) PCMCIA card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008145602.1983B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <971008010602_-1026971597@emout05.mail.aol.com>

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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997 S300A@aol.com wrote:

>      I have a Tecra 500 laptop(Toshiba), WindowsNT and Free_BSD coexist on my
> hard drive. Everything works except for the fact that my network card is not
> recognized by Free_BSD 2.2.2. When I get the kernel messages the card is seen
> under device ze0 rather than zp0 as the documentation states it should be. At
> device ze0 I get the message  Ze "PCMCIA slot0 : 3Com Corp ~3C589~TP/BNC
> LANCARD Ver-1A~000001", then in the next line at Ze0 it says "not found at
> 0x300". I've tried rebuilding the kernel with address from 200h - 3e0h and
> also with varying irqs.

ze0 is the IBM CreditCard driver; it should reject it but sometimes it
munges up the 3com to the point that it doesn't probe.  Disable the ze0
device in config (boot -c), make sure zp0 is set up and try it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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