Subject: Re: Is 3Com 3c905B supported ?
To: Marcello Balduccini <mb450146@mimas>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/21/1998 19:20:58
On Jul 21, Marcello Balduccini wrote
> I have just installed a 3Com 3c905B network interface card on my PC,
> but NetBSD seems unable to use it. At boot time, the following message
> appears:
> 
> 3Com product 0x9055 (ethernet network, revision 0x24) at pci0 dev 11
> function 0 not configured
> 
> and no device of the family 'ep?' is available. I have read in NetBSD's
> docs that 3Com's 3x90x network adapters *ARE* supported and that they
> should be accessed through device ep.
> 
> Is 3c905B out of the supported hardware list ? Or have I made a mistake
> somewhere ? Could someone please help me ?!
> 

Well, the 3c905B is not supported yet. The problem is that the 3c905 can
be used in 'compatible' PIO mode used by the 3c59x, 3c509, 3c589, etc ...
But the 3c905B can't. It's not the same chip.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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