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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:41:42 +0100
From:      "Alson van der Meulen" <alm@flutnet.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3com 509, working - kinda
Message-ID:  <20011220014142.M10171@md2.mediadesign.nl>
In-Reply-To: <001e01c188e9$f3f1eb80$9a523204@danny>
References:  <001e01c188e9$f3f1eb80$9a523204@danny>

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:04:48PM -0500, Danny wrote:
> I've had this problem with fbsd and 3C509's probably since I started
> using the 3C's, it never really bothered me since everything works fine
> but I recently have an urge to find some type of solution. Upon boot up
> the NIC is detected in the following fashion:
> 
> 	hiteknology /kernel: ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port
> 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0
> 	hiteknology /kernel: ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> 	hiteknology last message repeated 4 times
> 	hiteknology /kernel: ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 	hiteknology /kernel: ep1: <3Com 3C509B-TPO EtherLink III (PnP)>
> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 3 on isa0
> 	hiteknology /kernel: ep1: Ethernet address 00:60:08:07:d5:6a
> 
> Simply using ep1 works fine, but I just want to find out what might be
> causing this and what (if any) steps I can take in order to correct the
> nuisance. Thanks for your help.
Did you disable ISAPNP using the DOS config tool (I think it's called
3c5x9cfg)? And tried to set the io to 0x210 and irq to 3 using the same
tool?

HTH,
Alson

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