Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:06:55 -0700 From: josh b <statik@cris.com> To: Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3COM 3C509 flukyness. Message-ID: <4.3.1.1.20000705220304.00b0b8a0@pop3.concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <200007060417.VAA09816@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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yeah i had that boot up message for a little while, took a little thinking but i got it fixed. for me it had to do with the devices listed in my /boot/kernel.conf file... it wasthis: di ie di fe di le di lnc di cs di sn q .. before this all happend my 3com 3c509 was working great, anyways i removed all those lines ( i was getting some error in my bootup cuz i commented out those devices)..but when i booted up again i got this eeprom can'tload error!! i put those lines back in and it wasall good again...i hope this helped ya bud!! At 09:17 PM 7/5/00 -0700, Mark Smith wrote: >Someone previously mentioned their system reported something about >not finding the EEPROM on a 3c509 during boot. Well, it happened to >me and I can at least give some symptoms. > >1. I booted from the 4.0R CD and entered the visual config. I disabled >everything in storage except the floppy (I run a Adaptec 2940UW) and >anything else that I didn't need. Continued on and the card came up >just fine. > >2. I rebooted from the 4.0R CD and left the config default and kept >booting and then the ep driver reported no EEPROM and a NIC >address of all 00 > >The card has been configed with 3c5x9cfg to have PNP disabled and >an IRQ of 10 and IO of 0x300. > >I hope this can help somebody. >Mark >-- >========================================================================= >UNIX IS user friendly, it's just very choosy about who it calls a friend! >========================================================================= > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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