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From: creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM PCI 3C590 Fast Etherlink III. Is network installation possible?
Date: 18 Jun 1996 18:40:55 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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rnestor@ti.com (Bob Nestor) writes:

>In article <4pm6nm$4kt@bioalp.biobase.dk>, tobez@biobase.dk says...
>>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I have a 3COM 3C590 PCI network card on my system.
>>It is noted in release notes to FreeBSD 2.1-960606-SNAP that this card is
>>supported by FreeBSD.
>>
>You need the boot.flp image from the SNAP.  It was in the 0606 SNAP and it's 
>in the latest SNAP as well, but I've been unable to make it work on my 3C590 
>board.  It's found during the boot process, but no combination of options 
>seems to bring it to life on my system even though the board and connection 
>work under Win-3.11.

>Good luck.  If you succeed in making it work I'd like to know how you did it.
>-bob


You probably need to set the auto-detection on using the DOS setup disks.
I can't persuade some of my 590's to respond to ifconfig -link 

My advice would be to lose the card and get one of those nice SMC ones.

Colman
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