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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problems w/ 3c503 Card, FreeBSD 2.0 & New SNAP Date: 28 Jan 1995 17:44:30 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3gdvpu$1u8@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3fmmj9$24j@ldl.HealthPartners.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM (Bryan Vold) writes: >having under FreeBSD is that it doesn't like the Ethernet card (3c503). Hey, I have one of them - it works 8) >Under NetBSD I needed to add 'link0' to the options, so that it would >recognize the AUI port instead of the BNC. I have tried w/ and w/out the >'link0' option, different Base addresses etc (280, d8000) (300, d8000) and >both give the same result. The symptom is that the card, after it appears to >be configured gives multiple successive ed: device timeout messages. This >didn't happen under NetBSD or Linux. I really want to try FreeBSD, but I only >have access to this 3c503. Don't tell me to upgrade it, because the PC's not >worth it, and it works under other operating systems. Thanks for any insight. Ahu, are you connected to the network? You will get the timeout messages if you're not connected to the media, and you'll get a couple of them when the card is initialised, but everything should still work fine. I'm willing to live with the couple of errors on startup for the fastest 83C90 driver on the planet - would anyone expect 450K/sec on an NE1000? I was speechless. >-Bryan -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #