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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: 3c509 card problems Date: 6 Jan 1995 13:31:56 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3ejgoc$rc9@fw.novatel.ca> References: <dyljdl.74.04F662C0@dylcorp.dylex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] John Little (dyljdl@dylcorp.dylex.com) wrote: : Just a note here on an ethernet problem: The driver for the 3c509 card : doesn't seem to be able to initialize the 10BaseT port properly. However, if : you change the mode on the card to AUI (using the 3com utils) and use an : external transciever, it works like a champ. This was at I/O 0x200 and IRQ 10. Just a note here. You must be speaking about the FreeBSD 3c509 driver which is based on an ancient version of the NetBSD 3c509 driver. I am using my 3c509 with UTP under NetBSD and it works dandy. -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]