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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.att.net.hk!spinnews!spin-hsd0-tky!news.typhoon.co.jp!typhoon.typhoon.co.jp!nfung From: N Fung <nfung@typhoon.co.jp> Subject: Re: 3c509 problems ? Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: news@typhoon.co.jp (Charlie Root) Organization: T Y P H O O N n e t Tokyo http://www.typhoon.co.jp Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970130214705.2034A-100000@typhoon.typhoon.co.jp> References: <32D88C6F.27E2A24B@genesis4.sps.mot.com> <01bc0088$220c1260$5a2d6dc2@robert> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970114211810.24628A-100000@typhoon.typhoon.co.jp> <01bc0323$18ac1240$aa2c6dc2@robert> <32E73CE7.3D37@eecs.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32E73CE7.3D37@eecs.harvard.edu> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: typhoon.typhoon.co.jp Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:50:03 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34486 On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, daniel b giffin wrote: > just a note in case anyone else might have a problem like mine with the > 3c509-combo. i couldn't get anything to work until i realized that, > despite the card/driver's pretensions to an "autoselect" feature, > freebsd thought i wanted to use the BNC interface instead of 10BaseT ... > the fix was to use the DOS config program to set the card to 10BaseT > instead of automatic. I had the EXACT problem. Is this a FreeBSD (ep0 driver?) thing or more like a 3Com limitation? It's a pain to reboot with DOS, config, and reboot whenever I want to switch BNC<->10BaseT. N. Fung