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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:57:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        brad@shub-internet.org (Brad Knowles)
Cc:        doka@triton.kiev.sovam.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com 3C5x9 Network cards
Message-ID:  <199904081957.VAA02845@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19990408182604.028852@relay.skynet.be> from Brad Knowles at "Apr 8, 1999  6:26: 4 pm"

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As Brad Knowles wrote ...
> On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, Vladimir Litovka <doka@triton.kiev.sovam.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have had the same problem under 3.1-STABLE with ISA 3C509B cards -
> > FreeBSD did detect them, but had problems with sending/receiving data
> > through them. I've rolled back to simple ne2000 cards.
> >
> > BTW as I remember, FreeBSD had never worked good with this card's type.
> 
>     Is this to imply that FreeBSD has problems with 3Com 3C905 (10/100
> Base-TX) cards as well?  I was under the impression that FreeBSD and

Not at all:

> FreeBSD p100.iaf.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT
xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x00 int a irq 14 on pci0.13.0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:09:b7:41
xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps)

> FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 2.2.8-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE
xl0 <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0 int a irq 14 on
pci0:9:0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:09:b8:f1
xl0: autoneg not complete, no carrier (forcing half-duplex, 10Mbps)

Works like a charm 

> Linux were the only two OSes outside of Microsoft to have semi-decent
> drivers for these cards, primarily because of the user community self-support.

The xl driver works just fine.

Groeten / Cheers,
Wilko
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