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From: lrb1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Lewis Brown)
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of 3Com driver.
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In article <davidb.737982208@otto> davidb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Burren [Athos]) writes:
>In <1993May18.193708.10936@infodev.cam.ac.uk> lrb1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Lewis Brown) writes:
>
>Do you have a VGA card?  What model?  I had similar problems at one point
>with a machine such as the following, running NetBSD:
>
>	33 MHz Bull 386DX (a 25 MHz chipset with a 66MHz crystal - blech)
>	4 MB RAM
>	Multi-I/O & IDE card, 1.44 floppy & 40MB IDE
>	3c503 Ethernet
>	Trident 8900 VGA
>

I do indeed have a VGA card, but it is a Paradise VGA.  Does this
suggest that such a conflict is more widespread?  Is there a
"preferred" network card for 386BSD?

>
>- David B.

Lewis.