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From: nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (Naoki Hamada)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c509 problems ?
Date: 31 Jan 1997 10:47:52 +0900
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N. Fung wrote:
>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.

It is a limitation of the ep0 driver. Anyway, you can switch between
connector types on the fly.

Try:

aui:	ifconfig ep0 link0 -link1 -link2
bnc:	ifconfig ep0 -link0 link1 -link2
utp:	ifconfig ep0 -link0 -link1 link2

- nao