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To: Neal Westfall <nwestfal@orion.csci.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: 3C509 and NI5210 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 1995 00:15:28 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 08:34:44 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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>What is the current state of the 3C509 driver?  I'm trying to use it with
>the BNC port.  Do I need the LINK2 option or not?  I'm trying to get it

The link2 option is only needed to access the 10base-T or aui port on the
card.

>working with a machine at the other end which has an NI5210 (ie driver)
>installed in it.  Both the 3C509 and NI5210 cards are successfully probed
>on boot up.  The NI5210 is the 16K variant.  So far I can ifconfig both
>of them just fine and ping myself on both of them but they won't talk to
>each other.
>
>Here is output of ifconfig ep0:
>ep0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
>        inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        ether 00:60:8c:c2:5d:73 

Looks normal for BNC.

>
>And ifconfig ie0 from the other machine:
>ie0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>        ether 02:07:01:09:0f:80 
>

I don't know about the ie driver, but I have a 3C509 working just fine here
on the 10Base-T port.

>
>Neal Westfall                            nwestfal@csci.csusb.edu
>
>FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #0: Wed May  3 11:08:38 PDT 1995
>    root@darkside.csci.csusb.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/DARKSIDE
>
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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