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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: stein@ife.no (Stein Morten Sandbech)
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Subject: Re: 3C589C info and questions.
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> After some unexpected problems during configuration of the 3Com 3C589C
> PCMCIA card, I finally got it working on an Olivetti Echos P133S notebook.
> 
> I experienced two problems:
> 
> 1. When I configured the PCMCIA card under dos with the 3Com config
...
Let me guess, you're running FreeBSD 2.1, right?  FreeBSD 2.1R did not
support the 3C589C cards since they weren't released.  FreeBSD 2.1.5R
however, contains a patch for the newer cards and also works with all of
the older cards.

That it worked at all is good luck on your part.
> 2. Another problem seems to be that FreeBSD does not recognice BNC connected
>    cards, it defaults to twisted pair. By adding "-link0" at the and of
>    the ifconfig statement in /etc/sysconfig everything works OK.
>    I'm not sure that this parameter is related to selecting transreceiver type,
>    but it fixed my problem :-) The man pages are a little obscure on this... 
>    I may load the src, and have a look there later on though...

This is probably the problem with using the 3C589C card with the older
driver.  If you don't want to upgrade to 2.1.5, you should be able to
take the if_zp.c driver from it and use it directly in your 2.1R system.


Nate