From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 23:06:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24886 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gromit.pinpt.com (gromit.pinpt.com [205.179.195.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24881 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover3.pinpt.com (gatemaster.pinpt.com [205.179.195.65]) by gromit.pinpt.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00814 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 23:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960904060505.0091e874@wallace.pinpt.com> X-Sender: schluntz@wallace.pinpt.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:05:05 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: ep driver buggy? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been using the 3c509 for a while now, and never had a problem under 2.1. I even have three of them in my firewall system and have never had a problem. 3Com has been good to me! -Sean At 08:36 PM 9/3/96 +0000, you wrote: >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. >> > 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'. --- Sean J. Schluntz eMail schluntz@pinpt.com Manager Support Services Phone (408) 997-6900 x222 PinPoint Software Corporation Fax (408) 323-2300 http://www.pinpt.com/