Broken support for 3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL?

Chris Buechler cbuechler at gmail.com
Tue May 17 08:31:51 PDT 2005


On 5/17/05, Jens Andre Griepentrog <griepent at wias-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   I have upgraded my Compaq Armada 1750 notebook to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
>   In contrast to the old 5.1-RELEASE, now the support for my 3Com 3c575C
>   Fast Etherlink XL cardbus network device seems to be broken.
>   It will not be initialized as you can see in the dmesg output below:
> 
<snip>
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x2000-0x201f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0
<snip>
> xl0: <3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1100-0x117f mem 0x88000000-0x8800007f,0x88000080-0x880000ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0


My 3c575C (xl) works fine on 5.4.  My first guess would be the USB and
NIC using the same IRQ is causing some problems.

-Chris


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