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From: dyljdl@dylcorp.dylex.com (John Little)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: 3c509 card problems
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 20:09:25 UNDEFINED
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In article <3ejgoc$rc9@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
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>From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
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>Subject: Re: 3c509 card problems
>Date: 6 Jan 1995 13:31:56 GMT
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>John Little (dyljdl@dylcorp.dylex.com) wrote:
>: Just a note here on an ethernet problem:  The driver for the 3c509 card 
>: doesn't seem to be able to initialize the 10BaseT port properly.  However, if 
>: you change the mode on the card to AUI (using the 3com utils) and use an 
>: external transciever, it works like a champ.  This was at I/O 0x200 and IRQ 10.

>Just a note here.  You must be speaking about the FreeBSD 3c509 driver
>which is based on an ancient version of the NetBSD 3c509 driver.  I am
>using my 3c509 with UTP under NetBSD and it works dandy.

Yes, sorry, forgot to mention that this was FreeBSD.

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