From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 9 19:00:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14362 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from starlight.bogusdomain.ca (mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA [130.113.20.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14296 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Received: from localhost (ralph@localhost) by starlight.bogusdomain.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA03471; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:59:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from strohsr@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:59:04 -0500 (EST) From: Ralph Strohschein To: Ricardo Stewart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking FreeBSD 2.2.7 w/3Com 3C509b In-Reply-To: <19981209154035.23035.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Ricardo Stewart wrote: > I've read some BSD news articles that state that FreeBSD 2.2.7 does not > support the 3C509b card, although the 3C509 is claimed to be supported. > I am beginning to believe the product documentation is wrong.. But, what > is the solution?? Is there a driver available? > Are you sure you don't mean the 100 Mb/s card, the 3c905B ? If in fact you do mean the 3c509B, yes, it is supported. I'm using 3c509's and 3c509b's under FreeBSD 2.2.5. The 3c509B's need a little more configuration; you must disable the plug 'n pray features. Get the configuration diskette from 3com and under DOS (ugh!) run 3c5x9cfg.exe to disable the plug 'n play. While you're at it, you might as well select RJ45 transceiver instead of the auto media select, which sometimes fails. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message