Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: 3C905B-Combo supported? Message-ID: <XFMail.010625121653.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010624151325.A8308@nc.rr.com>
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On 24-Jun-01 Randall Hopper wrote: > Lots of good things about this chipset, but nothing about whether > anyone has the BNC working well in FreeBSD. > > It's a 3Com 3C905B with both TP and BNC inputs. There's an open > problem report (18336) that makes me wonder: > > o [2000/05/01] misc/18336 3C905B-COMBO cannot find 10base-2 LAN I used one of these for years when I ran a BNC LAN in my dormroom at college. I needed to use -link1 with ifconfig to force it to use the BNC tranceiver though. Nowadays the ep driver supports 'media' so you will probably need to do: ifconfig ep0 media 10base2/BNC See the manpage for more info. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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