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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 12:47:18 GMT
From: Charlie Root <root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
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Subject: 3c503 ELII
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>Hi,
>
>        I just bought a FreeBSD 2.0 cdrom  and tried to load it from the
>CDROM drive on a Sun machine over the local ethernet network.
>The FreeBSD diskettes don't seem to recognize my 3COM, 3C503 ethernet
>card. :-( 
>The 3C503, Etherlink II card is at address 280, which has worked for
>other operating systems.
>What is the best ethernet card for FreeBSD?
>Can the 3C503 ever work with FreeBSD?
>Thanks...
>
>        -Bob
>From: Robert Fickling <bigbob@crl.com>

I am using the 3c503 ELII right now.  Did you set the correct
memory sharing (0xd8000) and irq (5) jumpers on the card
for the distributed FreeBSD kernel ?
What is your hardware ?

Bob Gilbert    GILBERTR@wpn.npt.nuwc.navy.mil
and sometimes  root@gilbertr.npt.nuwc.navy.mil