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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jlemon From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon) Subject: Re: 3COM PCI 3C590 Fast Etherlink III. Is network installation possible? Message-ID: <jlemonDt7AA3.6FK@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk> <4q3jvv$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:44:27 GMT Lines: 29 Sender: jlemon@netcom22.netcom.com In article <4q3jvv$le4@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>, Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com,rnestor@ti.com> wrote: >In article <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk>, tobez@biobase.dk says... >> >>Hello! >> >>I have a 3COM 3C590 PCI network card on my system. >>It is noted in release notes to FreeBSD 2.1-960606-SNAP that this card is >>supported by FreeBSD. >> >You need the boot.flp image from the SNAP. It was in the 0606 SNAP and it's >in the latest SNAP as well, but I've been unable to make it work on my 3C590 >board. It's found during the boot process, but no combination of options >seems to bring it to life on my system even though the board and connection >work under Win-3.11. > >Good luck. If you succeed in making it work I'd like to know how you did it. >-bob Tech support says that the later revisions of the card are edge triggered, not level triggered (or was it the other way round? I forget.) I vaguely remember looking at the code, and I think that the Tulip driver (if_vx.c) was also written for BSDI, and BSDI only uses one form of interrupts - the opposite from what the 590 wants. Then again, it may just have been conflicting with my Adaptec 2490. I just sent it back and got a SMC card. :-) -- Jonathan