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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:14:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Snowden <MSnowden@dtt.co.za>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem setting up ethernet interface
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980217121340.12338I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <0003938C.@dtt.co.za>

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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Michael Snowden wrote:

>      I have just recently join the unix community.  

Welcome aboard!

> I have installed 
>      FreeBSD 2.2.2 on my laptop successfully, but i am having difficulty 
>      get the ethernet interface working.  I have a 3Com 3C589C PCMCIA 
>      Etherlink III card.  I have tried numerous irq and port settings for 
>      the zp0 driver (3Com 3C589 PCMCIA Etherlink III Ethernet controller)
>      
>      Does anyone have any suggestions or possible settings that I can try ?

Use the card's config program (on the floppy or you can download it from
3com) to set the port & IRQ, then feed that to FreeBSD.  As long as the
card is in the machine AND ze0 is disabled it should work.

If ze0 is enabled, it really mucks up the works.

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



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