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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Switching Ethernet Cards Date: 9 Jul 1996 14:32:34 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4rtqi2$gjg@hops.entertain.com> References: <4qpla8$juf@uriah.heep.sax.de> <ACZMudrODJ@qsar.chem.msu.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.144.250.82 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <ACZMudrODJ@qsar.chem.msu.su>, "Eugene Radchenko" <eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su> says: > >In <4qpla8$juf@uriah.heep.sax.de> J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: >> Dennis Holmes <dholmes@rahul.net> wrote: >> > interrupt for the ethernet card. I always get the same result: the card is >> > probed at boot time, but "ed0: device timeout" is reported whenever I try to >> > use it. >[...] >> > Also, I borrowed a WD8003E card and got the same result. I'm not sure I >> > had all the jumpers set correctly though, as I have no documentation for >> > that card. It was reported correctly at boot time. That one has AUI and > I had a WD8003E card with no jumpers, and browsed Yahoo to find the vendor's web page. A few clicks later I had discovered their fax-back service, and was able to get reasonable jumper info for that card the same hour. That card doth kick booty as our accounting PC's ethernet card. No worries. :)