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#! rnews 2116 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.ATNET.NET!usenet From: jwshafto@atnet.net (John Shafto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3Com 509, "Erase pencil mark" EISA bus and ISA 3c509b-Combo NOT PnP!!! Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:55:03 GMT Organization: AtNet Connections Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4g9krk$po2@news.atnet.net> References: <MAGNER.96Feb8105020@hstud1.cs.uit.no> <4fdegq$hq9@overload.lbl.gov> <4fn71p$pi3@sidhe.vtcom.fr> <4ftvep$ccp@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <3123147E.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: john@shafto.org NNTP-Posting-Host: sysadmin.atnet.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> at the moment I *still* cant install 2.1.0-RELEASE, cos I get "ERASE PENCIL >> MARK" i.e. >> 1 3C5x9 board(s) on EISA found at 0x4000 >> ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x4000 in test mode. Erase Pencil Mark! >> ep0: eeprom failed to come ready >I'm trying to remember what this error message meant. It has to do with >a jumper on the board which used to be literally a pencil mark you could >make between two pads - the graphite is conductive enough to form a high >resistance jumper of sorts. Anyway, that's the eytomology of the error >message but in more modern times I believe that this is an actual >software or hardware setting for the adapter. Do you have any software >that came with it for DOS setup? >-- >- Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project That's it Jordan, I just had this problem. One must run the DOS setup utility for the card, and take it out of test mode. I also turned off the plug-n-play mode to be safe, but I'm not sure the EISA card has that. I then came right up. Regards, Thanks to you and everyone involved for a great OS! --- ::: John Shafto ::: JWShafto@atnet.net ::: N7YAO, I'll speak for anyone. AT-NET Connections, Inc. (509) 766-7253 Innovation is hard to schedule.