From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 13 00:55:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA26510 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA26505 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) Received: from sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw110 [192.23.231.54]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA20589 ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:54:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA22063; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 09:54:10 +0200 To: Doug Russell Cc: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav , sbabkin@dcn.att.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3c509 NICs suck (was: Re: NIC drivers) References: Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 13 Jul 1998 09:54:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: Doug Russell's message of Fri, 10 Jul 1998 11:32:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Russell writes: > They are definitely funky. I have one (thank goodness it was given to me, > I didn't buy it. :) ) It usually sits on the shelf, but when I have tried > to use it, it will do all kinds of strange things. In some machines, the Tell me about it... I have an old 3c509 Combo card that once in a while (usually after you've taken it out of the machine and put it back in) will decide to switch over from 10Base2 to 10BaseT, and it doesn't even *have* a UTP connector... Did I ever rip out my hair over *this* one (well, I would have, if my hair was long enough to get a good grip) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message