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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd w/ 3com 3c59x (pci) controller
Date: 4 Mar 1997 17:03:39 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33163748.12855074@news.preferred.com>,
ericg@preferred.com (Eric G. Olsen) writes:
> abla@ballistic.com (Zim) wrote:
>
>>anyone had any experience w/ freebsd and a 3com 3c59x controller? i'm trying
>>to install, and it's detecting my nic as using 10baseT (UTP) instead of
>>10base2 (BNC) any ideas why? i know the card works, i've ran all tests on it.
>>
>>Thanks
>
> I had this problem too. You need to boot DOS and run the setup
> program that came with the card. In the setup program, disable the
> auto-detect feature and select the co-ax connector. Then, back to
> FBSD and you should be golden.
Or use the link1 (or is it link2) switch to ifconfig:
ifconfig ep0 inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 -link0 link1
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !