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From: kargl@apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0-950412-SNAP and 3c509 problems
Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 10:56:38 -0700
Organization: Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington
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In article <3ok7ck$874@nntp4.mindspring.com>,
rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) wrote:

> I hate to be a pest about this, but I still can't get the 3c509 to
> work under FreeBSD 2.0-950412-SNAP.  I ifconfig'd it right, but the 10-baseT
> hub never shows the port as being active.  Is the 3c509 supposed to work?  Is
> anyone using one with twisted pair?  The kernel bootup messages show that it's
> detected at 0x300/irq10 (I had to boot to DOS to reconfigure, which I don't
> have to do for Linux).
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
>     ifconfig ep0 168.121.253.90 netmask 0xffffff00
> 
> The various routing commands aren't shown because they don't seem relevant 
> yet.  What am I missing?  I'd very much like to use FreeBSD instead of Linux
> on this machine, but the NIC is a rather important piece of functionality.

Yes, the 3c509 works (at least the one in my machione does:-).

In your kernel config file you should have

device  ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr

You can check this by booting your system with the -c flag.

In /etc/hostname.ep0, you should have 

168.121.253.90 netmask 0xffffff00 link#

where link# is link0, link1, or link2.  link2 is for UTP.  link0 and link1
are for BNC and AUI, but I don't remember which is which.

-- 
Steven G. Kargl
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105