On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Apr 29, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote
> > 

> > with 1.3.2 boot disk,
> > ep1 shows up as a 3C509B EtherLink III
> > 
> > with 1.4_BETA boot disk,
> > the boot message shows ep0 _and_ ep1 as 3C509B, however there is only 1
> > NIC in this computer.  In fact if from the utility menu I run /bin/sh and
> > then do
> > ifconfig -a
> > I see ep0 _and_ ep1 listed, but with the same MAC address.
> > 
> > I can do stuff like
> > ifconfig ep1 my_ip_addr broadcast_addr netmask 0xffff0000
> > route add default my_gateway_addr
> > 
> > and ifconfig ep1 shows the interface configured, but I can't ping the
> > nameserver.
> 
> This is a know bug, I think it has been fixed now: the 3c509b shows up
> as both regular ISA and PnP board (in fact, 3com had some kind of PnP for their
> boards, before the real PnP was normalised, the 3c509b use both).
> What happens if you use ep0 instead of ep1 ?
also doesn't work.

> Otherwise someone should be able to provide you a working boot floppy.
not a big deal since I installed via a dos partition, but it would be nice
for it to work right..

thanks

dan