Maybe it was me, but in an IBM DockStation II (with a ThinkPad 760 EL
w/3C589 NIC), it wouldn't boot up properly... In another desktop system, it
showed up as two different NICs, ep0 and ep1... Disabling Plug and Pray
fixed both things.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jared D. McNeill [SMTP:jmcneill@invisible.yi.org]
> Sent:	Friday, September 29, 2000 3:57 PM
> To:	David Woyciesjes
> Cc:	'dribbling@thekeyboard.com'; port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject:	RE: Network Interface Cards
> 
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> > Here's my $0.02 ---
> > ISA - If you can find it, get your hands on a 3Com 3C509B, download the
> > config disks, and set all the parameters by hand. Do not use Plug And
> Pray
> > on those cards...
> 
> There's a Linux utility that does the same things as the DOS config
> tool, by the way. 3c5x9cfg or 3c5x9utils or something. Shouldn't take too
> much work to get it to compile.
> 
> Oh, and both of the 3C509B's in my NAT are in Plug and Play mode, and they
> seem to be working pretty good.
> 
> Jared