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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!not-for-mail From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3c509 ethernet card Date: 23 Feb 1997 12:42:32 GMT Organization: private site powered by FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5epdvo$3ba$1@klemm.gtn.com> References: <va4wws6yrjy.fsf@jay.dpmms.cam.ac.uk> <330CAECE.56CE@brax.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35951 In article <330CAECE.56CE@brax.se>, Per Brax <per@brax.se> writes: > Gareth McCaughan wrote: >> >> The FreeBSD handbook says that the 3c509 ethernet card is >> supported, but mentions that the driver is "buggy". What sort of >> level of bugginess are we talking about here? What doesn't work, >> under what circumstances? > > Due to lack of other free network cards, I tried it on 2.1.5 some > time ago. At least with my setup, I achieved (?) about 1-2 Kb/sec, > much like using a modem. This was without having any hardware conflicts > at all in the machine. After switching to a WD8013, the same machine > does 500 Kb/sec as a router. I remember, that these things were discussed a while ago in USENET or in the mailing lists ... Consens was, that the 3c509 cards works very fine in current versions of FreeBSD. So to say: FreeBSD 2.1.7, 2.2-GAMMA and -current. I'd advice you to upgrade your FreeBSD version to 2.1.7 using cvsup, if you have direct internet connectivity or ctm or by buying the new 2.1.7 cdrom. You could unpack the new source archive and do a "make world". The make world build process doesn't change your systems config files in /etc. You have to do it "by hand". But then you'd have "the latest and greatest" with new drivers and the security fixes, that led to the version 2.1.7. You could also do this upgrade to 2.2, probably in March, but for a production machine I'd wait for a 2.2.1 or 2.2-stable in the middle of the year or so ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<