> In article <199701281821.KAA23675@abraham.xc.org> you write:
> > On 28 Jan 1997, Kevin McMahon writes:
> > 
> > > but I can't ping anyone.  After a bit, it says "ping: sendto: Host
> > > is down".  I'm using the BNC connector on the card.  In Windows 95,

> > the cable type.  I had the same problem (auto-detect of cable fails)
> > for 3C509 cards in other machines, BTW.
> 
> Actually, it sounds like the same problem I had/have with the 590.
> Setting the connector manually with 3C59XCFG.EXE doesn't help. The
> problem was especially bas with 1.2, which I suspect is what he's
> installing. With -current plus some patches from Johnathon Stone, it
> works much better, as long as the machine is hard reset each time before
> booting NetBSD.

Dunno if it is any help, but I use a Etherlink III 3c5x9 card with our 
NetBSD-1.2 machine. I had to disable auto-detection and force it to UTP, 
and then use 
inet CrAnBerRy 0xffffff00 1.1.1.255 link0 link1
in hostname.ep0. (link0 link1 to tell NetBSD to use UTP).

Hope it helps someone.

Lund