Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:00:00 -0500 From: "Charlie Schloemer" <charlie@infoworks.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Koftan, Ryan" <Ryan.Koftan@COMPAQ.com> Subject: Re: LapTop PCMCIA Etherlink III Message-ID: <200009291459.JAA02452@smtp.intop.net> In-Reply-To: <C3A0290B5F6AD311AE9500508B5C36BB0663BCE8@exchou-ca1401.cca.cpqcorp.net>
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On 28 Sep 00, at 17:24, Koftan, Ryan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm kinda new to BSD (just got the stuff today) but have worked with SCO and > Redhat before to some extent...so I'm not an idiot, just a newbie. > > I'm trying to get a Digital HiNote VP laptop notebook with a 3COM EtherLink > III (model number 3c589c) PCMCIA card to work. The card is not identifed by > the installation and the only error message I get on startup is: > > Initial rc.i386 initialization: linuxep0: No irq?! > pccardd[42] driver allocation failed for 3COM Corporation(3c589): Device not > configured > pccardd[42]: pccarddd started > > I'd gladly give ep0 and IRQ if I knew where to configure it! AND I'd > configure the 3c589 device if I knew what to do. > > The card and the rest of the computer works fine under a "different" OS, so > I know it's not a hardware error. I had a similar experience with this same card, where it worked fine on Windows and maybe even Linux, but not OOTB with FreeBSD. Our solution on this was to disable Plug and Play in the BIOS, which was taking resources away from the card. (We were using a Fujitsu Lifebook.) Other advice we got from the list suggested we may be able to get a DOS utility from 3Com to write out some different defaults for that card, but disabling PnP fixed it first. Hope this helps, -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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