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From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: installing with a a 3com 3c589c card
Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:19:19 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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In article <5avqfj$rhs@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
Joseph Christopher Dilellio <etrigan@cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>i tried to install with this card, and i seemed to have some problems.  altho
>the card was recognized by freebsd, it didn't seem to actually route any
>traffic thru it.  i had the card set to the default settings in the GENERIC
>kernel for zp0, but it didn't seem like packets were even getting to the
>card.

Try messing with the link flags.  In the 'extra options' try using the
combination of:
'-link0 link1'
OR
'link0 -link1'

This tells it to use either the 10BaseT/10Base2 connector.

This card works great under FreeBSD, been using them for over 2 years.

>something i'd want to put in my kernel config file.
>
>controller      crd0
>device          pcic0   at crd?
>device          pcic1   at crd?

You don't want to use these unless you are running a newer release of
FreeBSD, and I'm in the process of getting that stuff working much better
than before, so maybe by 3.0 it'll be out of Alpha stage.



Nate
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