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From: unimgj@guldager.uni-c.dk (Morten Guldager Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: 100Mb Cards
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:18:26 GMT
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Jan Hurst (jhurst@westway.net) wrote:
: Hi all,
: 
: I have been trying desperately to get our DEC 10/100mb cards (sorry but I
: forget the model number) to run under BSDi 2.1.  Everything runs nice and
: happily during boot until the card driver is loaded, then the card simpy
: resets and loses link status.  The machine sees the card and allows you to
: bind/ifconfig to it but nothing goes in or out.

I have seen the same on SMC EtherPower 10/100 cards. 

The EtherPower's are based on a DEC500 chip.


/Morten %-)

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