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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!cnn.Princeton.EDU!luchtaine.cs.princeton.edu!root From: root@luchtaine.cs.princeton.edu (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Warning!Defective early revision adapter!(3C590) Date: 5 Nov 1996 08:00:44 GMT Organization: Princeton University Lines: 10 Message-ID: <55ms7c$f88@cnn.Princeton.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: luchtaine.cs.princeton.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Try as I may to find the answer to my warning message, I have come up empty! I'm installing FreeBSD 2.1.5 August 1996 release from a 2-cdrom set. The mother-board is an ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4, the computer a 166Mhz Pentium. The ether adapter a 3Com 3C590, not 3C509. I recieve this warning message at boot-time, and findthat clients, such as ftp;telnet, run amusingly sloooow. At times, the network card doesn't work at all! I thought that maybe the source code for the stable versions of 2.1.5 would remedy this situation. However, my tweaking skills aren't quite up to the challenge :(. Has anyone the patch for the if_vx.c found in /usr/src/sys/pci ?? Thanks. Eric Lesniewski Sender:eric@cs.princeton.edu Other:al359@osfn.rhilinet.gov Nov5 1996 .