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From: BOFH <web@typo.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C509B-COMBO Ethernet Card Problem
Date: 17 Jul 1996 19:57:49 GMT
Organization: typo.org
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Kim Tae Hyoung <azrael@chopin.postech.ac.kr> wrote:
: My FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE is not working.
: Main problem is 3c309B-combo ethernet card. 
: Some strange thing is 3c509-combo works very well. But, 3c509B does not.
: My kernel detect ethernet card and if I run 'ifconfig -a', it show
: network configuration correctly. But, if I run 'ping', there is no
: response.... Also, I disabled PnP fercility of ethernet card.

: My configuration is.

: 	Thinkpad 755CE, 486 DX4 100Mhz, 16M memory
: 	Docking station, 3C509B-COMBO ethernet card.

I ran into this a while back with BSDI. Of course, my problem was that I
was running two interfaces. It liked the first one but on the second, all
I could do was ping the interface itself. The fix was changing the base
addresses of the cards and forcing them to particular interrupts in the
kernel config. (In this case, 0x600 IRQ 5, and 0x640 IRQ7) Might give
that a shot and see what happens.

Otherwise, there are 4 options:
 bad card
 misconfigured kernel
 conflicts with another device
 the kernel simply won't support that device