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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:28:18 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
Cc:        per@visimedia.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD v 4.0 and 3COM 3C509TP
Message-ID:  <200004180628.XAA29667@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <C12568C4.002BD897.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr> from "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" at "Apr 17, 0 09:58:50 am"

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As I recall, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:
> The new ep driver in 4.0-R is quite sensitive to some things:

> it does not like when the 3c509 gets probed by **another** driver (so
> be sure to disable all other NIC drivers which may probe the same port
> address range)

> it does not like either when config paramaters are left "floating",
> whithout any fixed value (the cure for this problem is to use 3com's
> setup utility and set all parameters, like port address, IRQ and
> Ethernet prt used : UTP, BNC ...)

Matt Dodd will tell you this is not possible...

	-crl
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