Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.3.2 Ethernet card 3c509 not configured
To: Ishtiaq Ahmed <ishtiaq@tolkien.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
From: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/25/2000 11:40:01
"Ishtiaq Ahmed" <ishtiaq@ais.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

> I would like to install NetBSD-1.3.2 on my pc using ftp method. But during
> boot, the fast Ethernet card could not configured. The card specs are
> 3Com 's 3c905 B -TX

1.3.2 is *seriously* out of date (2.5 years or so), and I vaguely
recall problems with various models of 3C905 on even newer versions of
NetBSD. Since you're ftp'ing anyway, you should instead get 1.4.2 or
1.5_ALPHA2 from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD. I'm using a 3C905B-TX
with 1.5_ALPHA2 and it works wonderfully, including on the install
floppy (it probes as ex0, btw).

> Fast EtherLink
> XL PCI
> Any idea to configure that?