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From: N Fung <nfung@typhoon.co.jp>
Subject: Re: 3c509 problems ?
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Jesse wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, N Fung wrote:
> 
> :
> :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
> 
> Strange, I took a 3c509b, plug it in and it came right up using 10baseT, I
> haven't tried anything else, but I was actually supprised it worked after
> having to do the boot to dos thing for linux boxes. It was a used card
> which my account for a lot in this but I do know it was still in plug and
> pray when I put it in

Is 3c509b the same as 3c509-COMBO?  (Sorry I don't have the box with me.) 
Well, the 3c509-COMBO did come up with 10baseT when I first installed it. 
The problem was when I unplugged the 10baseT cable tried to use the BNC
interface.  I tried rebooting but the only way to get to work was to do
the DOS thing and get 3c5x9cfg.exe to select the BNC interface. 

Best,
N. Fung