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From: kbrown@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Kevin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: 3com 3c509B - Where's that EP0 driver?
Date: 27 Jan 1995 17:02:49 -0500
Organization: University of South Carolina - Columbia - Computer Science
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Message-ID: <3gbqi9$13r@pine.cs.scarolina.edu>
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I'm running NetBSD 1.0 on a pentium PCI machine and I recently installed
a 3com 3c509B - combo Ethernet card.  When I boot up the machine, I get
an error:

ep0: 3c509 is in test mode - erase pencil mark
ep0: at isa port 0200 ------- irq 10: aui/bnc/utp

then later:

ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface

So the card is being recognized apparently.  I looked at the configure
utility and have updated all the files I saw there - mainly added a 
hostname.ep0 file and ran MAKEDEV.  The problem seems to be that there is
no ep0 driver in /dev.  The BSD FAQ says that the 3c509 is supported, so
what am I doing wrong?

I'm attempting to connect to a thinwire ethernet system (is that bnc or
utp?).

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kevin Brown (kbrown@cs.scarolina.edu)