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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
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In-Reply-To: <m0vJGBB-00001lC@ernie.kts.org> from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at Nov 1, 96 10:46:20 am
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In reply to Hellmuth Michaelis who wrote:
> 
> Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of
> some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied
> driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from
> Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the 
> machine in question.

Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is
not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why
billyboys os'es has trouble too. 


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