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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3Com 509, "Erase pencil mark" Date: 9 Feb 1996 19:50:12 GMT Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4fg8hl$dn5@overload.lbl.gov> References: <MAGNER.96Feb8105020@hstud1.cs.uit.no> <4fdttj$8qo@hilbert.dnai.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov In article <4fdttj$8qo@hilbert.dnai.com>, Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com> wrote: >magner@hstud1.cs.uit.no (Magne Rasmussen) wrote: >>Why does my kernel print this error when I try to bring it up >>with my 3Com Etherlink III 509 ISA Plug'n Play ethernet card? > >Because "Plug 'n Play" is a misnomer, it should be "Plug 'n Pray". >Disable Plug 'n Play with the setup disk. FreeBSD should then boot fine. > >--Karl Wrong! I patched 3C509 driver and everything works fine. My 20 FreeBSD machines boot very happy with Plug 'n Play enabled. Who comes with "Erase pencil mark" idea? I don't know. :-) -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |