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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.ti.com!news.dseg.ti.com!news From: rnestor@ti.com (Bob Nestor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3COM PCI 3C590 Fast Etherlink III. Is network installation possible? Date: 25 Jun 1996 18:59:40 GMT Organization: Systems Group, Texas Instruments Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4qpcus$qg@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> References: <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk> <4q3jvv$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> <jlemonDt7AA3.6FK@netcom.com> Reply-To: rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: cna0188378-01.dseg.ti.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7 In article <jlemonDt7AA3.6FK@netcom.com>, jlemon@netcom.com says... > >In article <4q3jvv$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>, >Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com> wrote: >>In article <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk>, tobez@biobase.dk says... >>> >>>Hello! >>> >>>I have a 3COM 3C590 PCI network card on my system. >>>It is noted in release notes to FreeBSD 2.1-960606-SNAP that this card is >>>supported by FreeBSD. >>> >>Good luck. If you succeed in making it work I'd like to know how you did it. > >Tech support says that the later revisions of the card are edge triggered, >not level triggered (or was it the other way round? I forget.) I vaguely >remember looking at the code, and I think that the Tulip driver (if_vx.c) >was also written for BSDI, and BSDI only uses one form of interrupts - the >opposite from what the 590 wants. > I thought I'd already posted this, but it may have gotten lost. I finally got the 3c590 board working. Turns out it was auto-configuring to use IRQ 9 which is shared with IRQ 2. WFW seems happy with the sharing arrangement, but FreeBSD wasn't. By going into my BIOS setup and allocating IRQ 9 to a non-existant interface I was able to get both WFW and FreeBSD to select a different IRQ for the 3COM board and both are now happy. IRQ 10 was available they both decided to use IRQ 11 though - I guess this is one of the mysteries of IRQ management. ;-) -bob