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Date:      Wed, 1 May 1996 10:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Christiaan Keet <trig@netlink.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3C509 on PCI fails to probe
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960501101539.10061A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m0uEeby-000DmNC@netlink.co.uk>

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On Wed, 1 May 1996, Christiaan Keet wrote:

> > > I've got a 3Com 3C509 PCI card that fails to probe on boot.
> > The 3c509 is not a PCI card.  Do you mean the 3c590?
> 
> On closer inspection the 3C509 is the ISA card. What I've got is the 
> 3C590... which is the PCI version :/
> Just slotted both into a Win95 machine again and that thinks they're
> BOTH 3C509s   ... go figure.

Typical.  Win95 probably doesn't have support -- the 590 is a pretty 
recent card.

> Anyway, I found the vx driver for the 3C590 at
> http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~fgray/if_vx.html BUT that only seems to 
> work with -stable not with release 2.1

That may be the case.  

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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