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From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com>
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:36:09 +0000
Subject: Re: ep driver buggy?
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I've had 3c509's give me no problems whatsoever on two machines I 
have running freeBSD.  Just for kicks, I bought two SMC 10/100baseT 
cards (the 9332, I think 'twas called) -- those cards were so buggy 
under Windows95 I _hope_ they are the high performance n'er do quit 
cards that I've heard that they are under freeBSD (I'm pretty sure 
that Yahoo uses those for their freeBSD boxes) - anyway, they are 
leaving their current Win95 hosts ASAP: on those machines at least, 
they suck!  The 3c509, once plug n play is off, everything's great.  
And 3com includes a DOS utility that is even useful, unlike SMC.

> Date:          Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From:          Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
> Reply-to:      dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
> To:            Garth Corral <garthc@compass-da.com>
> Cc:            FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject:       Re: ep driver buggy?

> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Garth Corral wrote:
> 
> > Found this while browsing the FreeBSD handbook at freebsd.org:
> > 
> > [from section 5.3.8. Networking]
> > 
> > device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
> > 
> >             3Com 3C509 (buggy)
> > 
> > What exactly does 'buggy' mean?  Is this up to date?
> 
> The 3c509 driver has come on hard times recently.  It isn't very stable,
> main example being that the card will 'disappear' until it is disabled and
> re-enabled with 'ifconfig ed0 down' and 'ifconfig ed0 up'.  
> 
> The NE2000 code is still as solid as ever :-)  
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 
> 
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