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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uunet!nntp.crl.com!crl2.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Help - 3c503 card on FreeBSD 2.0 Date: 1 Jan 1995 00:05:49 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 41 Message-ID: <3e5not$g10@crl2.crl.com> References: <3dsl7b$i4@archive.ny.jpmorgan.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl2.crl.com In article <3dsl7b$i4@archive.ny.jpmorgan.com>, Steve Green <green_steve@jpmorgan.com> wrote: >Okay, I know I am being silly, and this is in the FAQ, etc but I >cannot get it to work. I have a dell 486D/50 (ISA slots) with a >3Com 3C503 configured to use IRQ 5, IO mem 280, mem d8000, which I >believe to be correct for the default kernel with FreeBSD 2.0. > >I cannot get this to work with the AUI port, using any of the flags listed below: >llc0 - specified in FreeBSD 1.0 instructions >altphys - specified in FreeBSD 2.0 instructions >link1 - specified in the online manuals at cdrom.com >In most cases, the error message is ed0: device timeout, which should >indicate IRQ clashes but I've been through all of that and we are >not getting them. > >I must admit, I am not sure if the BNC port is working either - we >are not equipped for this at the moment. > >Any ideas ? Many thanks, >Steve If I was in your situation, first what I would do is verify that the card is functional and could talk to thlocal net. How I would do this is to make a DOS boot floppy, then FTP to FTP.CDROM.COM and download a file by the name of 3c503x.exe what this is, is the diagnostic software distributed with the 3c503. run the diag command, from thefloppy by following the menus. and then you can test that the card is functional . Then "Use the source, Luke" go look in the driver reader files for the exact location, IRQ's that the boot driver is probing for. Use that info to set the address on the 3c503. Question do you have a 3c503 or is is an Etherlink II/16? On an ELII/16 you can use the diag program to set the eeprom for the dma line IRQ, There are jumpers for memory address and I/O address. (Strange :-) ) Hope this info helps, Else email me and I can step you throught the problem. Gary :-)