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From: nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C905-TX (was: 3C900 (EtherLink XL) and FreeBSD ???)
Date: 09 Nov 1996 23:40:30 GMT
Organization: Tom Yam, Edogawa, JAPAN
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In-reply-to: Curt Welch's message of Tue, 29 Oct 1996 14:14:34 -0500

Curt Welch <curt@kcwc.com> writes:
>What about the 3C905-TX?  I just got this card yesterday and
>haven't been able to make it work.  Is it similar to the 3C900/3C590?

Yes. It is an improved 3C595.

>I got the 2.2-Current kernel source and modified the vx driver
>to reconize my card, but that wasn't enough.  I got additional
>errors about the eprom not responding (or something like that).

Latest current contains an early support for the 3C900 and 3C905
adapters. Why don't you try this? If there's something wrong, please
let me know.

- nao