From owner-freebsd-net Tue Oct 12 8:51:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.183.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4A714E35 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:51:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA92811; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:48:41 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:48:37 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "D.M.P." Cc: Hamid Moghadam , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C509B support ? In-Reply-To: <38035366.DC8E4910@mindless.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm running 3.3-STABLE on a box at the office, with the following card detected: xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x24 int a irq 9 on pci0.20.0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:69:5c:64 xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) And have the following messages popping up fairly frequently: xl0: command never completed! xl0: command never completed! xl0: command never completed! xl0: command never completed! I haven' tworried too much abuot them, since it hasn't noticeably affected performance, I don't think...anyone want to comment on these, since the thread is going? On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, D.M.P. wrote: > Hamid Moghadam wrote: > > > > I have just read 3.2 release notes, it said that it is buggy ! > > I didn't understand that the card is buggy or the driver. > > In the dozen or or so FreeBSD boxes I've built using 3c509's, I > haven't had any problems with the driver or the card. > > > >Hamid Moghadam wrote: > > > > > > > > Does anyone know weather 3.2R supports 3Com 3C509B 16 bit ethernet card or > > > > not and is it a FBSD friendly card ? > > > > > >Yes, using the ep driver. It works very well. In fact, the firewall > > >box sitting right next to me (the through which this email was sent) > > >uses a pair of 3c509 cards. Make sure you read the man page first, > > >there's some important info you need to know. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message