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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!pdd.3com.com!padlock.pdd.3com.com!mumble From: rob@pickering.org (Rob Pickering) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: 3COM Token Ring card Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 20:31:30 GMT Organization: None - personal opinion only Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4p4qr2$rg_001@pickering.org> References: <x6buj2hnoc.fsf@mustang.via.net> <4orv86$b3m@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <DsFuvq.rw@solair1.inter.NL.net> <4p0026$4k7@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: rannoch.pdd.3com.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 In article <4p0026$4k7@agate.nbnet.nb.ca>, cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) wrote: > >>This is how rumors come into the world. Indeed. > If it was a rumor BSDI wouldnt have told me that. Right? :P This seems highly unlikely to me, BSDI list all of the 3Com cards on their recommended list at http://www.bsdi.com/info/hardware-hints.txt, they don't even mention any DEC TR or 10Mb cards that list. They also reference Paul Vixie's guide at http://www.vix.com/pc-hw which recommends the 3C509B as his prefered PC Ethernet solution. It seems unlikely therefore that they would then claim that they didn't work. > Want to know what I get at boot? How about nothing? It goes to mount >the /usr partiton at the end of detecting all the devices (And it >detects the 3Com III) and just hangs.. Doesnt do anything.. Doesnt >mount, doesnt boot, bleh. I can hit ctrl-alt-del though and reboot.. Are you sure you didn't configure a hardware address or interrupt clash between the ELIII and some other device in your setup. Although I have never setup a BSDI system with the 3Com TokenLink card, I have had no problems whatsoever with 3C509 (Etherlink III) cards under BSDI which is the problem you describe. -- Rob.