Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 04:37:59 -0800 From: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC Message-ID: <454C89A7.8080506@voidcaptain.com> In-Reply-To: <454A5AD8.1090600@orchid.homeunix.org> References: <454A5AD8.1090600@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) > working with 10base2/BNC? > > I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and > should be supported according to man xl page. You did use T-connectors with 50 ohm terminators at both ends of the coax, right? (Just checking the obvious.) IIRC. you can use the 3Com setup/diagnostic program for the card to force it to use a particular media selection and store that setting in non-volatile memory on the card. Not certain about this, it's been a while . . . You can also boot the 3Com diagnostic diskette (it runs MS-DOS) to do a loopback test of a pair of cards. Since that eliminates FreeBSD from the test, it should give you a better idea whether your problem is with the hardware or the xl driver.
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