From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 14 11:23:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28400 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mantech.com (right-srv.mantech.com [206.65.236.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA28395 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dnixon@mantech.com) Received: from MANTECH-Message_Server by mantech.com with Novell_GroupWise; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:23:17 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:22:59 -0500 From: "David Nixon" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA28396 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a FreeBSD box on my test bed and another in production. The test bed PC I rebuild with the release CDs I get from a local PC store (got to support you guys somehow), then CVS up to stable. My collection of CDs goes back to 2.2.5. You may be asking yourself why should I care and how does that help me? The point being that I have been running both my test bed box and production box with 3Com 3c905B-TX ethernet cards from the beginning. On 2.5 up specify the card as a 3c509 and use the dos config program (3Com driver disks) to turn off PNP on the card then match up the IRQ and memory address to what you have in your kernel. 2.2.8 works great with the card but you need to watch the message log to look for errors stemming from software settings on the NIC. I was getting a autoconfigure error (working on fuzzy memory) but the card was working fine. Basically, I turned off PNP and manually set the NIC to get rid of the error. I didn't manually set the network type, so the error I was getting was not from that. I can't speak/write as to how 3.0 performs but hope to remedy that on a one of the duel processor servers on the test bed here. David A. Nixon Network Security ManTech International Corp (W) 1.703.218.8229 (F) 1.703.218.8391 e-mail: DNixon@ManTech.Com >>> Chamara Somaratne 02/13 10:44 AM >>> Hi, I am at the moment running 2.2.6-stable. Was thinking about upgrading to a later release. Can somebody provide some advise as to whether I should go with 3.0.0(Nov 98) or 2.2.8 (Dec 98) or 3.1 (March 99 - btw is this in the stable branch?) Here's my concern. I have this 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL card which is at the moment not supported by 2.2.6, My concern is which of the newer releases provide better operation with this NIC. cheers, KC. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message