From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 13 23: 5:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f302.hotmail.com [207.82.251.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C49B314FDA for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hmoghadam@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 46044 invoked by uid 0); 14 Oct 1999 06:05:54 -0000 Message-ID: <19991014060554.46043.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 195.200.226.109 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:05:52 PDT X-Originating-IP: [195.200.226.109] From: "Hamid Moghadam" To: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us, beyssac@enst.fr Cc: scrappy@hub.org, gryph@mindless.com, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C509B support ? Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:05:52 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, Chris told the actual thing happened ! I asked about 3C509B not 3C905B ! Anyhow, I have just installed three of them (3C509B) in one box running 3.2R working as fw, bandwidth limiter, nat and router, and everything is working properly. Thanks for your comments. Cheers - HM >From: Chris Dillon >To: Pierre Beyssac >CC: The Hermit Hacker , "D.M.P." , > Hamid Moghadam , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: 3C509B support ? >Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:00:05 -0500 (CDT) > >On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:48:37PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > And have the following messages popping up fairly frequently: > > > > > > xl0: command never completed! > > > xl0: command never completed! > > > > I'm running -current and I see similar messages with Brian's new > > driver (not with the previous driver AFAIR): > > > > xl1: watchdog timeout > > > > My card is a 3c905B too. > > > > xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> irq 11 at device 17.0 on pci0 > > xl1: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:67:0b:82 > >You folks are confusing the 509B with the 905B. The original poster >asked about the 509B. 3COM has a wonderful model numbering system, >don't they? Someone will buy another 3COM NIC around here only over >my dead body, but I do use one 3C509B (a.k.a. EtherLink III) in a >FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE box and it has been working just fine. > > >-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). > ( http://www.freebsd.org ) > > "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of > courage to trust Windows with your data." > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message