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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c509 problem Date: 23 Jun 1996 06:21:18 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4qinou$5k0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960618222346.28813D-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com) wrote: : Greetings, : I'm having a problem with a 3com 3c509 combo card. : When I stick the card in and boot up FreeBSD (2.1R) it gives the message: : 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 : ep0: 3c5x9 at 0x300 in test mode, Erase pencil mark! : ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. : epprobe: ignoring model ffff : ep0 not found at 0x300 : Thus no ep0 device is available for ifconfig. I have tried two different : slots and two different 3c509 cards to no avail. However, the weird : thing is when I put in a non combo 3c509 (Just AUI & 10BaseT ports, no : BNC) it works fine (not good when you run BNC on your network, have to : use a transciever). : I remember seeing mention of this error a while back, but could not : remember nor dig up any additional information on it. : Any ideas? Yes, you need to disable plug 'n play using the software that came with the card. Annelise : TIA, : - Steve