From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 25 10:43:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C19937B405 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5PHh3I18461; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010624151325.A8308@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:16:53 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Randall Hopper Subject: RE: 3C905B-Combo supported? Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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