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From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: 3Com C509 Ethernet Problem
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:05:26 +1000
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I've been using the generic 3-com 507 thingy for 509 cards and its always
worked perfectly for me ... at least a dozen boxes with 509's running around
Brisbane OZ for months with 3.2 & 4.0 and never a sign of problems with ye
olde 509's :)

----- Original Message -----
From: <Joe.Warner@smed.com>
To: "Jason La" <jasonla_@hotmail.com>
Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: 3Com C509 Ethernet Problem


>
>
> Have you compiled the support for this NIC into your kernel?  If not, you
> may want to start
> here-->http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
>
> Cheers
>
> Joe
>
>
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> I have fbsd 4.0 and tried to install it on my machine with a 3Com c509
NIC.
> However, when I do a dmesg, fbsd says that the eprom is not read or not
> responding on the device ep0. The card works fine under linux and under
> fbsd
> 3.1. I have turned off plug-and-play on the NIC
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason La
> jasonla_@hotmail.com
>
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