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Subject: Re: strange 3Com 3C509 probe behaviour
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From the keyboard of Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr:

> I'm using here a bunch of 3c509 (around 20), and the easiest way to use them
> is to set them in non-PnP mode and force the I/O port and IRQs (with a
> 3x5x9cfg.exe utility)

To get it into the list archives: this solved the problem completely.

It was necessary to get the latest 3c5x9cfg.exe utility from 3com (6.1),
a 5.x version did not work.

hellmuth
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