From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 10:22:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wombat.matrixtek.net (mimatrix-2.iserv.net [206.114.39.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DFE37B810 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net) Received: from localhost (platypus@localhost) by wombat.matrixtek.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00448 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:31:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:31:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Fuller To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet card In-Reply-To: <395B811D.BBA77F1D@thehousleys.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, James Housley wrote: > Lars Eggert wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, James Housley wrote: > > > 3COM 3c509B-TPO > > > 10T/10-2 card, I believe. > > > > 3com has pretty nice diagnostic/config software for this available from > > their support site, if you have any chance to run Windows at all. > > > This utility will also will run in DOS. A Boot Dos disk is easier to > find. A reconfig of the card through the dos utility to make it PNP with the bios PNP off seems to have allowed FreeBSD to see it and use it nicely. A bit confusing, maybe, why this would be the case, but it is so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message