On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 10:30:15PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 06:16:48PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Saturday 24 August 2002 05:33 pm, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:00:25PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > > > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready > > > > > ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > > > Well, your mileage may vary, but I had exactly the same error message with > > one of those cards about 3 months ago. Re-running the setup utils fixed it. > > If my memory serves me correctly, I also disabled PNP-OS in the bios. > > I already have PNP-OS disabled in the BIOS, > (I needed to do this 4 years ago when running Linux.)
Hi, 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. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
