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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:22:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Silent Bob <silentbob@home.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3c509b-combo with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022102051.1169C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <344D778A.8640774A@home.com>

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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Silent Bob wrote:

> The NIC I have is a 3com Etherlink III 3c509b-combo will this work with
> FreeBSD, someone told me that FreeBSD dosen't like combo cards.

It handles them fine.  The detection is sometimes funny, you may have to
specify `link0 link1' for extra ifconfig options to force the UTP port.  I
haven't had a problem with it though.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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