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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c503 anyone?
Date: 7 Oct 1995 23:10:19 +0100
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Colin K. Wong <colin@omega> wrote:

(3Com card, apparently _not_ the 3c503 as said in the subject)

>Just installed it on my 486-66. Mine's mapped to ep0 after many
>frustrating hours of trying to figure out which device was the ethernet
>card :(

How many words per second do you read on average?  This is from my
very private 2.1 snapshot release:

j@uriah 46% cd /usr/release/usr/src/release/sysinstall/help/
j@uriah 47% fgrep -i 3com *
hardware.hlp:                                        NE2000; 3Com 3C503
hardware.hlp:eg0     310     5       dyn     dyn     3Com 3C505
hardware.hlp:ep0     300     10      dyn     dyn     3Com 3C509
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
hardware.hlp:                                        3Com 3C507; NI5210
hardware.hlp:zp0     300     10      dyn     d8000   3Com PCMCIA Etherlink III
hardware.hlp:el:     3Com 3C501
hardware.hlp:A: This problem may occur in a system with a 3com 3c509 ethernet adaptor.
relnotes.hlp:burned into an EPROM.  Local swapping is also possible.  WD, SMC, 3COM
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3c505 (Etherlink/+) NIC driver
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3c589 driver
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3C501 cards
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3C503 Etherlink II
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP
relnotes.hlp:3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III

It took me less than five minutes...
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)