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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:23:42 -0700
From:      "Kenton A. Hoover" <shibumi@lehub.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com 10Mbps 3CCE589ET 
Message-ID:  <199908061823.LAA02605@miranda.lehub.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:19:28 PDT." <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908060917270.3901-100000@orion.ac.hmc.edu> 

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Windows has a problem with the 589 B/C and the 589 D models.  The drivers 
are different, and if you have both drivers loaded, neither card will work.
Same if you have the wrong driver.  You'll need to remove the drivers and 
delete the registry entry to do a complete reinstallation of the correct 
driver.

I have both cards, and I only used to use the "D" card because of this.  
However, I haven't booted my TP600 under Windows for fifteen days now (had 
to do so only because the BIOS needed a reset when I got a dock for it).  
Who do I hit up for my 30-day "clean and sober" chip?

The Mantra of Windows support is: when the system is being unstable, reinstall
Windows.  While that usually does work, UNIX would never have gotten 
anywhere with a simular support model.

On Fri, 06 Aug 1999 09:19:28 PDT, Sendmail channeled brooks@one-eyed-alien.net saying:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nick Slager wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking at buying a new PCMCIA ethernet card for my notebook running
> > FreeBSD 3.2 - specifically the 3Com Megahertz 3CCE589ET.
> 
> It's works great for me under 3.2-STABLE.  It doesn't seem to want to work
> under windows, but I think that's just the one I got. ;-)
> 
> Tangentialy, even without PAO, FreeBSD has much better PC Card support on
> my laptop then windows does.  I can't get windows to work reliably, but
> FreeBSD works great.


| Kenton A. Hoover                                  | shibumi@marchordie.org |
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