Date: Wed, 23 Dec 98 17:02:21 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: dhammis@verio.net Cc: john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 3C509 card Message-ID: <H000057c01b41c6d@MHS> In-Reply-To: <00f801be2e8a$9145fc40$944845d1@Samantha.mi.verio.net>
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Hello, The ep driver is buggy, but I do use it with absolutely no troubles on at least two machines (in fact, I had more machine with 3Com boards in the past) . The big trouble with the 3C509 boards is the setup of the media and the I/O address. I have a DOS-bootable diskette with a 3com-supplied tool (its exact name is 3c5x9cfg.exe) just for this. After setting this parameters installing and using FreeBSD went well. (just my 0.02) TfH > The driver for the 3com card has been known to be buggy for a long time. I > myself have not been able to get it to work and I'm not sure of anyone else > who has. If there is someone on the list who figured out a way around it > then please let us know. > > Try swapping out the card with a different type of card, preferably Linksys > or Intel and see if it works that way. > > --Damon > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Morgan Salomon <john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 8:15 AM > Subject: Problems with 3C509 card > > > > > >Hiya > > > >I am setting up an HP Vectra with a 3Com 509 network card. > > > >Interestingly enough, the system finds the card nicely and installs > >per ftp just as it should. However, on system boot after install, it > >gets to the point where it says "Doing initial network setup: hostname" > >and freezes and stays right there. > > > >I assume I gave ifconfig some goofy arguments during install by ftp, > >but I'm wondering whether anyone can help me around this? > > > >Thanks, > > > >-John > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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