From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 11:08:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24986 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:08:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24980 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:08:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA49602; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 20:08:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: "Damon Hammis" Cc: "John Morgan Salomon" , Subject: Re: Problems with 3C509 card References: <00f801be2e8a$9145fc40$944845d1@Samantha.mi.verio.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Dec 1998 20:08:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Damon Hammis"'s message of "Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:40:28 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Damon Hammis" writes: > 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. Yes, it's buggy, but that's not the bug. The only known problem with the ep0 driver is a bug that causes the system to think it has run out of mbufs. If you can't get it to work at all, it's probably a hardware problem. In my experience, 3c509s are flaky no matter what OS you run. If you need a cheap 10 Mbps Ethernet adapter, I'd strongly recommend an SMC-based card, e.g. the Kingston EtherX ($30 in Norway) which not only has a bug-free driver (ed0), but is a lot faster than the 3c509. It's also a PnP card, which makes configuration a lot easier. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message