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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Configuring a 3C509 Combo board
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Organization: Mordor International
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 14:01:17 GMT
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Chris Warth (csw@well.sf.ca.us) wrote:
: I'm trying to get FreeBSD 2.0.1 to recognize the 10base-T port on a
: 3Com 3C509 EIII Combo board, so far with no success.  I am running
: the GENERIC kernel and the card comes up under the "ep0" interface.
: The BNC-thinnet interface works fine.  I've confirmed that the 10baseT
: connection has link-level connectivity.

: I have tried a variety of "link" options to the ifconfig command
: with no luck.

: The one that I thought would work was

: 	ifconfig ep0 -link0 -link2 link1

: Something similar has worked on BSDI machines with the same board
: and under FreeBSd when configuring the "de0" interface.

: Is there some problem with the "ep" driver that prevents this from
: working correctly?  Is there a chance that the board is broken?  It is
: much more likely that I simply have not hit upon the particular spell
: to make it work correctly.

: Any advice would be welcome.

Why not run the DOS utility disk that came with the card and use
it to force the card to use the other port?

Chris

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