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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:19:09 -0400
From:      Brian McGovern <bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
To:        paradox@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: 3c509 ethernet adapter driver???
Message-ID:  <199710171519.LAA25220@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>

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The problem is in the sauce.

Actually, its one of the reasons they call it plug and pray.

Odds have it (without you having said it) that you also have a sound blaster
plug and play card in the machine. I've found that machines with older BIOSs,
the combination of the two is a killer for FreeBSD. Removing the Sound
card will fix the problem, until it goes back in the box.

Newer BIOSs, on the other hand, seem to deal with it ok. As a For Instance,
I have two pentium motherboards with the same BIOS. One is two or three 
revs later than the other. Both had identical setups inside (video, ethernet,
sound, drives, etc). One worked, one didn't.

Sorry for the bad news, but, as they say, thats the way it is.



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