I am no NetBSD expert but I remember a couple of years ago I tried to get my
3C509 card working under NetBSD 1.6. After trying a couple of months I gave
up, it just didn't work. I remember I just bought a new PCI card for 10?
which started working directly and saved me a lot of hazzle.

No solution perhaps, sorry
/jonas


On 2004.04.19 20:25:07 +0000, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> goteki@pixeloverflow.com said:
> > I still don't get any responses from the NIC.
> 
> I havn't used ISA 3com cards for a while, but there was a problem
> when the ISA-PnP models: They were found twice - by the 3com specific
> ISA method and the PnP method, with sometimes contradicting IRQ settings.
> You might have a look at the kernel boot messages, and perhaps
> disable the ISA-PnP stuff using the 3com diagnostics.
> 
> best regards
> Matthias
I already did that and the card doesn't show up twice in dmesg.
ep0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f irq 10: 3Com 3C509 Ethernet

I also tried a working crossover cable but the result is the same: link 
negotiation and status ok, but no data transmittion.

Regards,
    Rui Paulo

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