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 -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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