From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 8 13:38:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 917DE14D21 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA25945; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:14:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA02845; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:57:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199904081957.VAA02845@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: 3Com 3C5x9 Network cards In-Reply-To: <19990408182604.028852@relay.skynet.be> from Brad Knowles at "Apr 8, 1999 6:26: 4 pm" To: brad@shub-internet.org (Brad Knowles) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:57:03 +0200 (CEST) Cc: doka@triton.kiev.sovam.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Brad Knowles wrote ... > On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, Vladimir Litovka wrote: > > > I have had the same problem under 3.1-STABLE with ISA 3C509B cards - > > FreeBSD did detect them, but had problems with sending/receiving data > > through them. I've rolled back to simple ne2000 cards. > > > > BTW as I remember, FreeBSD had never worked good with this card's type. > > Is this to imply that FreeBSD has problems with 3Com 3C905 (10/100 > Base-TX) cards as well? I was under the impression that FreeBSD and Not at all: > FreeBSD p100.iaf.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x00 int a irq 14 on pci0.13.0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:09:b7:41 xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps) > FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 2.2.8-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE xl0 <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0 int a irq 14 on pci0:9:0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:09:b8:f1 xl0: autoneg not complete, no carrier (forcing half-duplex, 10Mbps) Works like a charm > Linux were the only two OSes outside of Microsoft to have semi-decent > drivers for these cards, primarily because of the user community self-support. The xl driver works just fine. Groeten / Cheers, Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl _______________________ Powered by FreeBSD ___ http://www.freebsd.org _____ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message