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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3COM 3x509 pencil marked! - Help Date: 9 Aug 1995 21:31:09 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 20 Message-ID: <40b9et$hna@overload.lbl.gov> References: <408m8v$7vu@news.euro.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <408m8v$7vu@news.euro.net>, <gary@kampai.euronet.nl> wrote: >Hi, > >The 3x509 driver keeps telling me that my card is in >setup mode (pencil marked). I've tried changing the >card setup, removing probes for other ethernet cards, >etc., but still no luck. > It looks like you have a 3COM 3C509B board + (Intel PCI chipset | OPTi chipset). If your motherboard is ZAPPA, then I don't know what to do. Otherwise, you need to keep reboot a few times to let FreeBSD to configure it. That is way I struggled with different 3C509B reversions + different motherboards. -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |