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From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se>
To: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca>
cc: Jon Ford <jonaford@usit.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905
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Hi,


When you'll move to 100baseT network your card will still work, and will
show a 100bT connection on the LED but as soon as you'll try to do nfs
operations you'll never get it to complete its operation.
The man page for the vx driver specifies that it only supports the 10Mb
connection.

Samy


On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Antonio Bemfica wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Ford wrote:
> 
> > I have one of the 3com Fast EtherLink XL pci cards (3c905).  Does freeBSD
> > work with these cards?
> 
> Not according to the list of supported hardware. I installed it, however,
> (3Com905-TX) and it works using the vx0 device (FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE). Am I
> missing some important features of the card by using it without the proper
> support? (I'm using it at 10BaseT - my network will be moved to 100BaseT
> soon) 
> 
> Antonio
> 
> -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'.  It is fascinating
>  to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid 
>  using the term"  --  John Lanchester,  in  "The Debt to Pleasure"
> 
>