From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 20 13:55:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03450 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (root@gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03438 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gallup.cia-g.com (gallup.cia-g.com [206.206.162.10]) by gallup.cia-g.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA15647; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:55:35 -0600 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:55:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Fisher To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM network cards.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I've seen some heat in regard to 3Com cards. Is this in regard to any > specific card, or all 3Com cards in general? I was under the impression > that 3Com cards were rather decent cards.. Good cards indeed. > I'm looking to find a good card to use on a router with a CSU/DSU unit > (freeBSD router), any suggestions? Is the 3Com 590-COMBO? TPO? I heard lots of horror storries about the 590, and a few about the 509 (mainly just that the code was still "buggy" at least as of 2.1R).. I decided to drop a 509 in my last machine - it works great - no problems what so ever _EXCEPT_ I had a problem (had this on other machines with 2.1R too - haven't tried with 2.1.5R) where it would find the card on every other reboot (I don't think it mattered how you rebooted even).. I added a line of code to the driver and it now finds it every time. Though it's not a heavily loaded machine. - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com