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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink III Date: 14 Jan 1994 16:03:36 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2h6foo$r4a@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2h4vmo$ghv@bruce.uncg.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca In article <2h4vmo$ghv@bruce.uncg.edu>, Simply Jason <wrightj@bruce.uncg.edu> wrote: >Hello out there, > I've got a 3Com Etherlink III (3C509), and I can't get it to work > in my FreeBSD box. The doc's say there is support for the 3C503(?). > Has anyone gotten this card to work with any of the BSD's? > > Any insight would be helpful. > > Please mail responses to CAFFEINE@delphi.com as I don't know how much > longer this account will be active. (I'm still trying to figure out > Delphi's reader, so emailed responses would be best.) i believe that the 3c509 is sufficiently different from the 503 that you need a new driver. such a driver exists for netbsd, and is in the -current tree [ep driver]. no idea about freebsd. marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--