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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
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Subject: Re: 3COM 509 NICs
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On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> Speaking of which, last night when playing with the kernel compile on my 
> home test machine I saw that it said 3c509 ethernet card support is still 
> buggy.  I agree with this in that it only finds my 3c509 (the generic 
> kernel) half the time when booting that machine.  I was about to grab a 
> 3c509 for my new server... a PCI card.. are the 3com PCI cards 3c509 or 
> something else?
> 

3COM calls their PCI version of 509 3COM590.... (there are several 
versions, a combo, a 10BaseT, and even a fast ethernet variant) but I 
can't say anything about support - at least the 2.1.0-RELEASE doesn't.

(Tried it out - then switched to DC21040).

	Sander