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by **Armando L. Caro Jr** » Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I was wondering what the difference was between the 2 network cards (3COM
3c509B & 3c509B-TP). Is there, or is one a subset of the other?

Also have people been successful using 3c509B-TP under Linux?? I plan to
install one of these cards on a 386 and another on a 486. Any advice,
suggestions, and comments would be helpful and appreciated.

Please email replies.

Thank you,
Armando

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by **Geoff Alls** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

>I was wondering what the difference was between the 2 network cards (3COM
>3c509B & 3c509B-TP). Is there, or is one a subset of the other?

I've used 3C509B cards just fine - they include all 3 ethernet interfaces
(maybe the -TP card is twisted-pair only??).

Quote:>Also have people been successful using 3c509B-TP under Linux?? I plan to
>install one of these cards on a 386 and another on a 486. Any advice,
>suggestions, and comments would be helpful and appreciated.

I suspect the important caveat is to use 3C5X9CFG.EXE on the DOS disk from
3COM to setup the card for specific I/O port, IRQ, (and on -B cards,
interface type) and DISABLE PnP. Otherwise I think you're almost guaranteed
to have trouble.

geoff

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by **Eugene Nin** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

the tp is twisted pair, the other is coax. Also I've been using one for a
while, but 3coms are a pain, they keep loosing their settings. I recently
replaced a mb and my 3com seems to have lost its settings again, but now the
setup program locks up when I try to configure it. I've going to find
something else.
Eugene

>I was wondering what the difference was between the 2 network cards (3COM
>3c509B & 3c509B-TP). Is there, or is one a subset of the other?

>Also have people been successful using 3c509B-TP under Linux?? I plan to
>install one of these cards on a 386 and another on a 486. Any advice,
>suggestions, and comments would be helpful and appreciated.

>Please email replies.

>Thank you,
>Armando

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>* University of Delaware * WWW: http://udel.edu/~acaro *
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