[9fans] Problems Installing with a 3C905-TX Ethernet Card

[9fans] Problems Installing with a 3C905-TX Ethernet Card

[Mark C. Otto]

I installed the 29July2000 plan9 distribution on a Micron Millenia Me but cannot
boot up with my 3C905-TX ethernet card specified in the plan9.ini.  I saw there
were some fixes for the 3C905 drivers in the October 15 update, so I downloaded
a new diskette image and tried booting with that.  The result was as follows:

PBS...Plan9 from Bell Labs
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=40 di=ffff ebx=429f esi=-1
using fd0!dos!plan9.ini

It just hangs after that with the floppy drive light on.  ^T^T p or r or ^t^t p
or r do not print the kernal processes or reboot.  My ether0 line is:

ether0=type=elnk3 port=0x1040 irq=10 media=10BaseT

the result is the same with

ether0=type=elnk3

I was using the same 3C905-TX card on a Gateway 2000 and it worked fine.  The
2000 is a much older machine.  Does anyone have what I can try or have an idea
what might be going on?


My plan9.ini is:

*nomp=1
distname=plan9
partition=new
bootargs=local!/bzroot
#ether0=type=elnk3 port=0x1040 irq=10 media=10BaseT
monitor=multisync75
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=ps2
bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcflop.gz
installurl=http://204.178.31.2/magic/9down/compressed/983358897.nm4myi95tzwccbaupxuvsga8x3xseb3e

I had to add a line in the vgadb

        0xC0047="Stealth 3D 2000 Pro Vers. 1.01"

before

        0xC0047="Stealth 3D 2000 Pro Vers. 3.04"

to get the graphics to work.

Here is what I know about the hardware:

Computer:  Micron Millenia Mme
CPU: Pentium 200Mz 64Mb ram
BIOS: Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Graphics: S3 ViRGE-DX/GX PCI (375/385)
Monitor: Micron 700FGx
Network: 3Com Fast Ether Link XL 10/100Mb TX Ethernet Adapter, 3C905-TX
Sound: Yamaha OPL3 SAx
CDROM: Hitachi CDR-8330

Here are the plan9 device detections with out the ether0 line:

dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407
dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0107
dev B0 port 170 config 80A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000

cpu 200MHz GenuineIntel P55C MMX (cpuid: AX 0x0544 DX 0x8001BF)

dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407 dma 00550004
rwm 16
dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0107 dma 00000001 rwm 0
dev B0 port 170 config 80A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000 dma 00000000 rwm 0

Eventually, I am trying to set the Micron up as a cpu/auth server.

Mark

Re: [9fans] Problems Installing with a 3C905-TX Ethernet Card

[Russ Cox]

If you can boot the install floppy with
no ethernet and send the output of running
/bin/pci, that would help.  It's likely that
we're not recognizing your card as a 905 per se,
so that we're handling it wrong.

I had this problem last summer with another
905 variant.

Russ