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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!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.netbsd.misc Subject: reply for 3c509 "EPM" error -- for <drochner@zelux6> Date: 12 Feb 1996 22:56:59 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 55 Message-ID: <4fogjr$290@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov To whom it may concern: The email reply was returned by misaddressing. I deleted incoming mail after I did reply, so I have to post to here for you. }Subject: Re: 3Com 509, "Erase pencil mark" }Content-Length: 1852 } }> I modified NetBSD to work with PnP cards, but there is a problem: }> The card answers to both configuration methods, with different }> IO and irq settings. }> Can you tell me how to disable the traditional way? }> What does your patch? } }I have not looked at NetBSD code yet, so I can not give you a specific }answer. I just got email from a FreeBSD folk: } }-------------- fwd message ---------- }Received: (from roberto@localhost) by sidhe.vtcom.fr (8.7.3/sidhe-new-1.5) id MAA26182; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:07:38 +0100 (MET) }Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:07:38 +0100 (MET) }From: Ollivier Robert <Ollivier.Robert@hsc.fr.net> }Message-Id: <199602121107.MAA26182@sidhe.vtcom.fr> }To: jin@george.lbl.gov }X-Also-Posted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc }Subject: Re: 3Com 509, "Erase pencil mark" }References: <MAGNER.96Feb8105020@hstud1.cs.uit.no> <4fdegq$hq9@overload.lbl.gov>Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants }Content-Type: text }Content-Length: 544 }Status: RO } }In article <4fdegq$hq9@overload.lbl.gov>, }Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote: }> Either disable the PnP feature on your 3C509B ethernet card (3c5x9cfg), }> or apply a patch (which is not cooperated by FreeBSD. I do not know why). } }The patch has been incorporated into FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT along with the }Multicast patches. I use a 3c509b without problem. } }[[ cc'ed to Jin ]] }-- }Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org }-=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=- } }-------------- end of fwd message ---------- } }You may look into FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT, and find the answer. I believe }you can diff the 2.2-CURRENT and 2.1.0 files (if_ep.c) to find patch. }I have not looked at 2.2-CURRENT either. Let me know if you cannot find }the patch. If so, please send me the NetBSD driver code, then I can poke }on it for you. -- /-------------- 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 |