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Date:      Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:46:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org>
To:        lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 3c589/PCMCIA.
Message-ID:  <20021226094350.L62460-100000@moredhel.hayholt.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021226021624.GA42766@lewiz.org>

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On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, lewiz wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I've just got hold of a laptop for Christmas.  It has a PCMCIA network
> card - a 3COM EtherLink III 3C589.  I am way out of date and still have
> Coax running around my house, so it needs to be using the 10Base2 not
> 10BaseT.
>
>   My problem is, the card is detected as ep0 yet I have a feeling that
> it might be better as zp0.  I am not certain about this.
>
>   The problem is - while it gets detected, quite well, I think.  I can
> see lights change on the NIC as it detects it, which suggests the
> probing is working fine.  It doesn't actually communicate with the
> netwrok.  When I try and resolve my address via DHCP it doesn't flash or
> anything.  Maybe I'm missing something.  I can provide any information
> required.
>
>   Any help would be much appreciated,
>

i have almost the same problem with my 3Com 3C589 card.
The light is not suppossed to blink tho, when i boot windows the light
simply burns to indicate link and that is al it does. When i boot freebsd
the light goes on and it does recieve a DHCP link. But after that all
network communication fails. If not yet found a solution to it. But i was
thinking that it might be because the pcmcia-controller from toshiba
(laptop is a tecra 700CT) is not supported?

Marcel


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