Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:50:02 -0100 From: Milton Moura <miltonmoura@mail.telepac.pt> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3com 3c509B trouble Message-ID: <20001205215002.A990@xtc.linux>
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Hi! I've recently installed a 3com 3c509B Combo NIC on my FreeBSD box running 4.0-RELEASE and it was recognized upon startup but the LED did not light up and I couldn't ping the other host on my LAN. I searched this list's archive and found several other posts discribing similar problems and followed the instructions on some of them. I got the 3c5x9cfg.exe utility, disabled the PNP option and the card was set to port 0x300, irq 10. Now, when I boot FBSD, it shows: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready .. ep0: Ethernet adress 00:00:00:00:00 which was the same as some of the errors described on other posts. As soon as I run ifconfig ep0 192.168.0.2, it hangs the machine. I then changed the IRQ from the setup program to all the others available, one by one, and it would either return this same error or this other one: ep0: no irq !? ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6) device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 at last, I tried these same steps, but changing the port to 0x210, which resulted in FBSD successfully detect the NIC on startup but the LED would light off as soon as the message from ep0 appears. I still cannot ping the other host on my network :) Those people who have had these same problems... How was it solved? Thank you in advance... - Milton Moura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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