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From: btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM (Bryan Vold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Problems w/ 3c503 Card, FreeBSD 2.0 & New SNAP
Date: 19 Jan 1995 15:46:17 -0600
Organization: HealthPartners
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Message-ID: <3fmmj9$24j@ldl.HealthPartners.COM>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ldl.healthpartners.com

Hello all.  I am very puzzled by this problem.  I have installed NetBSD, and
Linux on a Northgate computer w/ few or no problems.  The Problem I'm
having under FreeBSD is that it doesn't like the Ethernet card (3c503).
Under NetBSD I needed to add 'link0' to the options, so that it would 
recognize the AUI port instead of the BNC.  I have tried w/ and w/out the
'link0' option, different Base addresses etc (280, d8000) (300, d8000) and
both give the same result.  The symptom is that the card, after it appears to
be configured gives multiple successive   ed: device timeout   messages.  This
didn't happen under NetBSD or Linux.  I really want to try FreeBSD, but I only
have access to this 3c503.  Don't tell me to upgrade it, because the PC's not
worth it, and it works under other operating systems.  Thanks for any insight.

-Bryan
 
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