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From: mkh@acton.albedo.com (Michael K. Hamilton)
Subject: 3C509 problems - erase pencil mark?
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Organization: Albedo Communications - A Public-Access InterNetwork
Message-ID: <DDy5xA.46@acton.albedo.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 02:07:57 GMT
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Greetings from the High Desert, one hour north of Los Angeles and at
the end of 2 miles of dirt road.
I am putting together a 2.0.5-R machine which will act as a network
gateway and packet-screener, and am trying to get 2 3C509 cards
to work as the network interfaces. They are configured as
irq10/0x280 and irq11/0x300.
At boot time, I get the following messages (repeated for ep1):
2 3c5x9 board(s) found at 0x280 0x300
ep0: 3C5x9 at 0x280 in test mode. Erase pencil mark!
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
epprobe: ignoring model ffff
I've tried various combinations configuring the cards, and I know
the driver is advertised as buggy - but can anyone tell me (guessing
will even do) what 'Erase pencil mark!' is trying to tell me?! Is
there something obvious here that's my fault?
Bummin' in Acton,
- mike
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Michael Hamilton / mkh@albedo.com
albedo, n. In astronomy, the ratio between the light reflected from
a surface and the total light falling upon it.