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From: dennis@nebulus.net (Dennis Breckenridge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 3com 509
Date: 24 Jan 1995 06:47:41 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
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almont@lainet.com (Leon Kopelev) writes:

>I have been tring to use a 3c509 and then a 3c579 on FreedBSD 2.0R
>for a while now,  but I had no lock yet.

>the kernel has no problem finding the cards and assigns ep0
>to them. 

>after running ifconfig I can ping the assigned ip#
>but I can not ping any servers on my network.

It works fine with the link0 flag set. It's probably using the AUI port.
Here is mine. It's been up for a week now without problems.

/etc/hostname.ep0
199.175.101.3 broadcast 199.175.101.255 netmask 0xffffff00 link0
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Dennis