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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcuna.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: 100Mb Cards
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Jan Hurst <jhurst@westway.net> writes:
> I have been trying desperately to get our DEC 10/100mb cards (sorry but I
> forget the model number) to run under BSDi 2.1.  Everything runs nice and
> happily during boot until the card driver is loaded, then the card simpy
> resets and loses link status.  The machine sees the card and allows you to
> bind/ifconfig to it but nothing goes in or out.

  That's strange - I've used the DEC DE500-XA cards under BSD/OS 2.1 (with
and without the driver update patch) at both 10 and 100Mbit/sec and haven't
had any problems other than that once you ifconfig the card, you can't change
the link speed without rebooting.

	Terry Kennedy		  Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	  St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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