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Re: Problems with the 3Com 3c905B NIC



On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 09:35:58AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> FWIW I've got a working PIII/3c905b/terayon setup. 
> My only initial  problem with it was dyslexia: 509 is  not the same as
> 905! IOW, you need to use the right driver, which in my case means
> 
> alias eth0 3c59x
> 
> in /etc/modutils/aliases. 
> 
> Before that I tried two different  NICs to no avail, which leads me to
> believe  NICs may be  inherently flaky. So maybe  try another  one (I
> convinced my local h/w vendor to  lend me this one, slightly used, and
> I ended up buying it).  
5x9 is quite different from 59x indeed :)

but in your mail you wrote you used 59x, not? i don't see any reference to
3c509 there....

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