Hello,

I've got a 3com 556 miniPCI ethernet card on a laptop, but the generic (or
laptop-) kernel of NetBSD-1.5.1/i386, that provide 'ex0' driver for it is
unable to make it work :

as soon as I try an 'ifconfig ex0 xxx.xxx.xxx. netmask ...', the kernel
replies 'ex0: device timeout' :(

This is strange because I remember to use ex0 for this kind of card on
another laptop (2 months older) without any problem. But perhaps this other
one has not exactly the same 3com chipset (revision changed ?)

does someone have a clue or had the same troubles ?

Regards,

Pierre Bourgin

% dmesg|grep ex0
ex0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: 3Com 3c556 MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x10)
ex0: interrupting at irq 11
ex0: MAC address 00:01:03:xx:xx:xx
tqphy0 at ex0 phy 0: 78Q2120 10/100 media interface, rev. 11
ex0: device timeout
ex0: device timeout