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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM Token Ring card
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 22:46:05 GMT
Organization: VSi
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j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>geertj@solair1.inter.NL.net (Geert Jan de Groot) wrote:

>> I know of one small defiency in the 3C59x support (that is NOT the 3C5x9!)

>Anyway, the 3c59x is architecturally rather similar to the 3c5x9
>series.  Both arguably don't belong to the overall best network cards
>available these days.

 Yeah I know. I finally got my 3c509 working, I had to go in and
reprogram some stuff. It seems that the 3c509 and PCI bioses dont get
along very well. I came up with a quick fix and so far it seems to
work, but I just ordered 10 DEC 10baseT cards... I hope they work
nicely.

 Lance