From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 10:36:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22690 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:36:37 -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 KAA22680 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:36:33 -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 KAA02263; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960904173511.0097d864@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: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:35:11 -0700 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" From: "Sean J. Schluntz" Subject: Re: ep driver buggy? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:50 AM 9/4/96 -0700, you wrote: >Tony Harverson wrote: >> >> Sean is rumoured tro have mumbled : >> >> > 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 >> Yes, it seems that scraficing a young goat to your network card every week >> does wonders for its buggy driver performance ;-) >> >> Seriously, I think it was jo'erg who wrote to me about this one a while ago, >> saying that people with good quality motherboards don't seem to have much of a >> problem with the driver.. > > as i remember (whoa, gonna step in it for sure! ;), the 3c509 > works wonderfully if you have a decent motherboard, else power > cycle the box at reboot. the warm-boot of chessy motherboards > does not yank the isa bus reset line. > > the 3c509B (note the "B") is a plug-n-pray model > > please sepc which 3c509 you have in your testimonials. thanks. Sorry about that, we run the 3c509B model here on the FBSD systems with PNP off. -Sean --- 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/