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From: Grant Haidinyak <grant@iwv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3Com Ether III 3C509 and AHA-2740
Date: 22 Aug 1995 06:59:06 GMT
Organization: Interwave Communications
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I've had trouble in the past with a 3C509 card (the driver was saying that
there was an EEPROM timeout). To get around the problem, I had to use the DOS
3Com Configuration tool for the card, and turn off (disable) the plug and play
feature.

Hope that this helps,

grant