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From: "Damon Hammis" <dhammis@verio.net>
To: "John Morgan Salomon" <john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Problems with 3C509 card
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:40:28 -0500
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The driver for the 3com card has been known to be buggy for a long time.  I
myself have not been able to get it to work and I'm not sure of anyone else
who has.  If there is someone on the list who figured out a way around it
then please let us know.

Try swapping out the card with a different type of card, preferably Linksys
or Intel and see if it works that way.

--Damon

-----Original Message-----
From: John Morgan Salomon <john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 8:15 AM
Subject: Problems with 3C509 card


>
>Hiya
>
>I am setting up an HP Vectra with a 3Com 509 network card.
>
>Interestingly enough, the system finds the card nicely and installs
>per ftp just as it should.  However, on system boot after install, it
>gets to the point where it says "Doing initial network setup: hostname"
>and freezes and stays right there.
>
>I assume I gave ifconfig some goofy arguments during install by ftp,
>but I'm wondering whether anyone can help me around this?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-John
>
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