Re: 3com NIC question
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really
> > plug-n-pray at all!
>
> I'm not sure it was _just_ marketing lies... I think it tried to be
> PnP, but the 3c509Bs were released shortly after the PnP spec came
> out, and before there were many machines which supported it. I'd be
> more inclined to believe that they _tried_ to implement ISA PnP and
> just messed up.
To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable
the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play.
Cheers,
Joost
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