Bug 26344

Summary: 3Com 3C509 EtherLink III Problem.
Product: Base System Reporter: Andrey.Chepurko <Andrey.Chepurko>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Andrey.Chepurko 2001-04-04 14:00:00 UTC 
Well, I have a 3Com EtherLinkIII isa pnp-card, when I load my machine
with kernel.GENERIC, it recognizes the card:

Qoute from dmesg:"ep0 <3com.......> irq9 isa0
ep0: eprom failed to come ready
ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
ep1:<3Com...> at port... irq9 on isa0
ep1: Ethernetaddress: 00:60:....:bb
ep1: promiscious mode enabled
ep1: promiscious mode disabled
ep1: promiscious mode enabled
ep1: promiscious mode disabled
"
If I try ifconfig ep0 - the system hangs!!!!!!!!! 

If i try ifconfig ep1... , the system works, but network goes VERY-VERY
SLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW, even if i ping the neighbour machine(the ping 
intervals
can be 1-2 minutes or can be +infinity at all).

What's the matter with that!???

I've already tried to compile kernel with "device pnp0", it has no effect.

Andrey

Fix: 

I dunno, if you know, PLEASE let me know asap as well, or i'll install
solaris 7 on my box and will never be using freebsd again if there's no support.
How-To-Repeat: take a <3com etherlink III 3C509 combo isa-pnp> network card and
try to boot on 4.2-Realease with kernel.GENERIC.
Comment 1 winter 2001-04-04 17:02:11 UTC 
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 Andrey.Chepurko@fth2.siemens.de wrote:
> >Description:
> Well, I have a 3Com EtherLinkIII isa pnp-card, when I load my machine
> with kernel.GENERIC, it recognizes the card:
> 
> Qoute from dmesg:"ep0 <3com.......> irq9 isa0
> ep0: eprom failed to come ready
> ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
> ep1:<3Com...> at port... irq9 on isa0
> ep1: Ethernetaddress: 00:60:....:bb
> ep1: promiscious mode enabled
> ep1: promiscious mode disabled
> ep1: promiscious mode enabled
> ep1: promiscious mode disabled
> "

This isn't the real dmesg output.  Boot verbose and capture the relevent
information (anything that contains 'ep' and the PnP settings) and let me
see that.

> Andrey
> >How-To-Repeat:
> take a <3com etherlink III 3C509 combo isa-pnp> network card and
> try to boot on 4.2-Realease with kernel.GENERIC.
> >Fix:
> I dunno, if you know, PLEASE let me know asap as well, or i'll install
> solaris 7 on my box and will never be using freebsd again if there's
> no support.

Use the 3c5x9cfg.exe program (under DOS, available from the 3com FTP
site) to refresh the cards config.  I've seen what appears to be corrupted
EEPROM contents cause the driver problems.

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Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-13 01:54:17 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Feedback timeout
Comment 3 nic 2004-07-22 22:42:01 UTC 
I had this same problem, and the 3c5x9cfg.exe program, along with just
re-setting up my NIC solved it. Other notes from my problem

1.	Problem happened at boot, system hung during boot, and rebooted
2.	Had BSD 4.4 working with same NIC, and no problem at all.. (??)
3.	Finally managed to upgrade my 4.4 to 5.2.1. yay.

Nic Boie
Shensey@shensey.com