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From: dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help getting 3C503 up w/ 2.0.5
Date: 29 Jul 1995 09:04:55 GMT
Organization: George Washington University
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Bryan T. Vold (btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM) wrote:
: I have been trying to get the 3C503 up.  It gets recognized by the kernel, and
: I have it jumpered to the correct settings (per HARDWARE file).  I did get
: NetBSD up a while back, and I had a hard time with that until I found the link0 

: I get a bunch of references in the gateway field to "link#1".  I assume this
: is where the problem is.  The FreeBSD.FAQ seems to be in error when it says
: something about using the altphys or -altphys to change which port is used.
: I haven't tried different hardware settings (yet).  Should I need to?  The 

I have run FreeBSD 2.0R through FreeBSD 2.0.5 june snap with a 3c503
card.  It has an AUI port and a BNC port.  I need to use the AUI port
(for a UTP xcvr).  Other than needing to add ``link2'', I've had no
problems with the standard settings (ed0, irq 5, i/o 0x280, maddr
0xd800).

-- David	(dobrien@seas.gwu.edu)