Subject: Re: Problems installing an ISA 3C509 card on a PCI bus system.
To: Jim Bachesta <bachesta@net-serve.com>
From: David <david@mono.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/15/1996 14:55:03
I dont know how much of a useful datapoint this will be but...
I'm running two 3c509's in a PCI motherboard under OpenBSD
(which for this case should be the same as NetBSD). I'm using the
BNC connector on each - the only problem I had when I switched them
from a VESA bussed '486 was one of them used IRQ15 which the bios
normally reserved for PCI/Plug&Pray. You don't mention what IRQ
you're using - you might want to check the bios has it set up for
ISA use...
David/abs (david@mono.org)
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On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Jim Bachesta wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.1 on a 133Mhz Pentium PCI bus machine.
> I'm having trouble getting the 3C509 card to work with the system.
> I'm confident the network configuration is correct cuz I can get
> things to run with a WD1003 8bit card configured as ed0. When
> I try to get my 16 bit 3c509 card to work ifconfig shows a properly
> configured network device on ep0. dmesg indicate the correct
> irq and base address for the card. When I do a ping to the local
> net nothing ever gets out. tcpdump running on another machine indicates
> that no icmp packets are getting out of the new machine. I'm trying
> to get the RJ45 connection to run. I configured the card to use TP RJ45 via
> the 3com configuration utility. My hub doesn't show the port active, except
> for brief moments during a ping. It seems like the AUI is being used instead
> of the RJ45 port on the 3com card. Has anyone seen this problem before?
> Has anyone successfully configured the 3c509 on a PCI bus pentium machine?
> BTW the card is an ISA card.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Bachesta
> bachesta@net-serve.com
>
>