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From: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 09:43:13 -0700
To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: Tecra 730
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> The 3c589c-combo.
>
> It is brand new..  I have used it under win95 with both the UTP and BNC, at
> least once trying the BNC under FreeBSD immediately using the BNC
> under win95.  I have tried using the 3com utility to set the connector
> type both under win95 and msdos 6.0.  I will try again but and
> suggestions gratefully accepted.

ifconfig ep0 -link0

or a relative of that (some combination of link0 and link1 on or off) will  
do it.  I've done it on my 2.2 system on a Dell Latitude successfully.

Kenneth