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From: daniel@eecs.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C589C-COMBO Etherlink III PCMCIA support for FreeBSD ?
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:00:36 -0500
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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In article <5fdnhq$2bg@nuscc.nus.sg>, eng30292@leonis.nus.sg (FOO CHUN
CHOONG) wrote:

> I've a 3C589-COMBO Etherlink III PCMCIA card that I would like to use 
> with FreeBSD. However, the system always recognizes my card to be using 
> the UTP port. How do I switch the PCMCIA card to use the BNC connector 
> port instead?

I had the opposite problem with the 3C589-COMBO (but not PCMCIA) --
freebsd always booted up using the BNC interface, and I wanted UTP.  The
card, by default, is in some sort of "autoselect" mode.  I got things to
work by using the "config3c5x9" (or whatever) command from DOS.  This lets
you change the setting from "auto" to UTP or BNC.

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