On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Steve Price wrote: > Anyone have detailed docs for 3Com's 3C515 NIC? I found > Guy Helmer's driver, http://www.freebsd.org/~ghelmer/3c515/ > but it didn't recognize the card I have. I was going to > spend some time this weekend to see if I could figure out > what was up. Just thought it might be easier if I had > a little light reading material that described how the > chip on it was supposed to work. :)
Have you tried booting with the "-v" flag to see the driver's probe messages? Did you configure the card using the configuration "pnp" commands before the kernel starts booting? For example, config> pnp 1 0 irq0 9 port0 0x360 enable os did the trick for me on a 3.2 system. When I did an install of FreeBSD 3.2 on a machine with a 3C515, I was pleasantly surprised when sysinstall captured this config command and wrote it to the kernel.conf file for future boots. Anyway, the card is mostly the same as the Vortex (if_vx.c driver) but with some ports changed. Sorry, I don't happen to have tech docs for the card. Good luck, Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghel...@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghel...@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
