From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Oct 22 10:22:33 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA13089
          for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13084
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost)
          by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01198;
          Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Silent Bob <silentbob@home.com>
cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: 3c509b-combo with FreeBSD
In-Reply-To: <344D778A.8640774A@home.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022102051.1169C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Silent Bob wrote:

> The NIC I have is a 3com Etherlink III 3c509b-combo will this work with
> FreeBSD, someone told me that FreeBSD dosen't like combo cards.

It handles them fine.  The detection is sometimes funny, you may have to
specify `link0 link1' for extra ifconfig options to force the UTP port.  I
haven't had a problem with it though.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major