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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:27:28 -0800
From:      John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net>
To:        "Martin" <martin@drustvo-dns.si>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3com509b TPC not working properly
Message-ID:  <200204240627.g3O6RSl02986@pen.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <00e701c1eaf5$65557130$1c07f9c2@pheaton>
References:  <1019540356.3cc4f384535f4@moon.drustvo-dns.si> <200204230716.g3N7GT129787@pen.homeip.net> <00e701c1eaf5$65557130$1c07f9c2@pheaton>

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On Tuesday 23 April 2002 10:33 am, Martin wrote:
> Greetings..
>
> John, gotta tell you that same happened to me.BNC didn't give its MAC
> address, but everything else.But i remember that once i had pci card too,
> but just with UTP - and it worked just fine (in fact, never had better
> network card).
> BTW:  John i didn't understand you about that "manual loading module".Can
> you please tell me more about that?
> Maybe someone else knows how to fix this? Is this some kind of failure in
> FreeBSD?Hm.. maybe some patches..
> Please, if anybody knows, let me know.
 
Oops, I said:

> > I didn't compile it into the kernel, just loaded the module.
> > (Which it figured out how to do by itself).

What I meant was that once the new card was in place
(two of them actually - planning it to be a firewall) the system
just figured out to load the proper modual.

Both those card types (509 and 905) are ones that Freebsd
supports without compiling them in.


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