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From: N Fung <nfung@typhoon.co.jp>
Subject: Re: 3c509 problems ?
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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