Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:22:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c509 "eeprom failed to come ready" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208251421000.70630-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20020825122641.A1046@attbi.com>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > I think I solved the problem. I did not need to recompile the kernel, > and I did not have to reconfigure my NIC with the 3Com DOS utilities. > > I read the following post from 1999 by Poul-Henning Kamp: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=632436+0+archive/1999/freebsd-current/19991128.freebsd-current > > Poul states that the probing of the ie and ex drivers affects the > 3Com magic config registers. > > So, what I did was, I edited /boot/device.hints and commented out a bunch > of lines and disabled a few drivers: > > ============================================================================ > #hint.ie.0.at="isa" > #hint.ie.0.port="0x300" > #hint.ie.0.irq="10" > #hint.ie.0.maddr="0xd0000" > hint.ie.0.disabled="1" > #hint.fe.0.at="isa" > #hint.fe.0.port="0x300" > #hint.le.0.at="isa" > #hint.le.0.port="0x300" > #hint.le.0.irq="5" > #hint.le.0.maddr="0xd0000" > hint.le.0.disabled="1" > ============================================================================ > > When I rebooted with the GENERIC kernel, my 3Com 509 card came up just > fine. Beat me to it. Every problem I've had in the past with a pre-PnP ISA card was due to other device probes confusing the proper device. So I typically disable all probes of any non-PnP ISA cards unless I have them. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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