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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:13:55 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to select media for PCMIA combo network card? 
Message-ID:  <199709171513.IAA00728@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:35:52 %2B0930." <199709170605.PAA00906@word.smith.net.au> 

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> > Get this, though:  I was at least able to run the card's
> > diagnostics at that point, and afterwards I booted up the PAO
> > floppy again and did the ifconfig.  Now the thing _does_ respond
> > to pings.
>
> OK.  But once it's been powered down it doesn't talk anymore?

Well, as a matter of fact, things have changed for the better.  It
now comes up properly and uses the BNC connector each time.  I tried
powering off, and I even tried removing the card a couple of times.
So I am much happier now.

I don't know why it started working.  I guess it's possible that
installing the W95 drivers or running the diagnostics for the card
had the side-effect of saving some state in hardware.  Who knows?  I
wonder whether the 10baseT media will still work if I ever try it ...

Anyway, I'm much happier now. :-)

I guess I'll still try to keep a small W95 partition at the front of
the disk.

John



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