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From: davidg@Root.COM (David Greenman)
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Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink II/16 device timeouts
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:34:28 -0800
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>> Hello,
>> 
>>   I'm getting the following error with my 3Com card:
>> 
>> ed0: device timeout
>
>Wrong device.. :-)
>
>You want to configure the ep0 device for this card.

   You're confusing the Etherlink III (3c509). The Etherlink II/16 is supposed
to work with the 'ed' driver. It looks like his problem is that he has another
card in his system configured at the same irq as his ethernet.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project