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From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: 3com509 driver for FreeBSD??
Date: 29 Jun 1994 05:57:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca's message of 28 Jun 1994 22:01:21 GMT

In article <2uq6ji$rmj@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:

   This might sound stupid but our company uses only 3c509 cards as well
   (which is why I originally wrote the driver) and I'm using them in many
   PC's running NetBSD and am having "no" problems.  In fact, the PC's are
   backed up nightly through the cards via NFS. One of the machines is
   running an EISA (3c579) version of the card and one of the PC's even runs
   two cards:

Similarly good results are being had with FreeBSD (1.1R and 1.1.5A)
machines and 3c509 ethernet cards all over the place, so I can also
only gather that it's something in your configuration or the hardware
itself.  The 3c509 drivers in FreeBSD and NetBSD are so similar as to
be indistinguishable.

					Jordan