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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!mbreed From: mbreed@cs.tamu.edu (Michael B. Reed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 3C509, help! Date: 27 Oct 1995 14:47:16 GMT Organization: Texas A&M Department of Computer Engineering, College Station, TX Lines: 23 Message-ID: <46qrdk$4ii@news.tamu.edu> References: <46gb08$1it@lilith.uab.es> <46p5q9$hlu@firehose.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc71.cs.tamu.edu In article <46p5q9$hlu@firehose.mindspring.com>, Alexei Rodriguez <alexei@thebox.mindspring.com> wrote: >I am not sure about the last part but you might want to try disabling the >plun-and-play feature (it is screwy) as well as specifying the media >type on the adapter (the auto-sense is not quite stable). There's no "might want to try" about it, actually. My 3C509-COMBO would not work in EISA mode. You'll have to dig out the installation disk that came with the card, and use the Configuration option to put it back into ISA mode. Specify 0x300 as the base I/O address, set the appropriate IRQ (mine's at 10), and specify the media type as well (FreeBSD defaults to trying the 10Base2 interface, if I'm not mistaken - at the very least, the UTP interface is the last one it'll try. Guess what we're using on my LAN?). My card has worked flawlessly since I've done this. Good luck! -- -Brad Reed mbreed@tamu.edu