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From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
To: sos@FreeBSD.org
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:42:36 +0100 (MET)
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sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:

> > Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of
> > some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied
> > driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from
> > Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the 
> > machine in question.
> 
> Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is
> not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why
> billyboys os'es has trouble too. 

Probably it is one of those defective ones - the coldboot probe says its
an early revision adaptor and the warmboot probe does not say it.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis                hm@kts.org                    Hamburg, Europe
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