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Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 1996 06:50:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        tony@panacea.insight.co.za (Tony Harverson)
Cc:        schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ep driver buggy?
Message-ID:  <199609041350.GAA12188@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199609040901.JAA23696@panacea.insight.co.za> from "Tony Harverson" at Sep 4, 96 09:01:23 am

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Tony Harverson wrote:
> 
> Sean is rumoured tro have mumbled :
> 
> > I have been using the 3c509 for a while now, and never had a problem under
> > 2.1.  I even have three of them in my firewall system and have never had a
> > problem.  3Com has been good to me!
> > 
> > -Sean
> Yes, it seems that scraficing a young goat to your network card every week
> does wonders for its buggy driver performance ;-)
> 
> Seriously, I think it was jo'erg who wrote to me about this one a while ago,
> saying that people with good quality motherboards don't seem to have much of a
> problem with the driver..

	as i remember (whoa, gonna step in it for sure! ;), the 3c509
	works wonderfully if you have a decent motherboard, else power
	cycle the box at reboot.  the warm-boot of chessy motherboards
	does not yank the isa bus reset line.

	the 3c509B  (note the "B") is a plug-n-pray model

	please sepc which 3c509 you have in your testimonials.  thanks.

jmb
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