Frank van der Linden wrote:
>
>Quoting Jim Bachesta,
>
>[...]
>> I try to get my 16 bit 3c509 card to work ifconfig shows a properly 
>> configured network device on ep0. dmesg indicate the correct
>> irq and base address for the card. When I do a ping to the local 
>> net nothing ever gets out. tcpdump running on another machine indicates
>> that no icmp packets are getting out of the new machine. I'm trying 
>> to get the RJ45 connection to run. I configured the card to use TP RJ45 via
>> the 3com configuration utility. My hub doesn't show the port active, except 
>> for brief moments during a ping. It seems like the AUI is being used instead 
>> of the RJ45 port on the 3com card. Has anyone seen this problem before? 
>
>I've never actually used a 3c509 card but: did you try the '[-]link{0,1}'
>flags to ifconfig as described in the ep(4) manual page to make it talk to
>the right connector?
>
>- Frank
>

I'm not exactly sure why it is needed, but you must both set the card to the
UTP port, AND set 'link0 link1' on the ifconfig line. 

Does anyone know why it does not appear to work correctly if you do not set
the card to a specific media type, or why you have to set 'link0 link1' if
you aren't able to switch media types, anyways?

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