On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > > > AFAIK the main problem with 3c509 nics is that they are not really > > plug-n-pray at all! > > I'm not sure it was _just_ marketing lies... I think it tried to be > PnP, but the 3c509Bs were released shortly after the PnP spec came > out, and before there were many machines which supported it. I'd be > more inclined to believe that they _tried_ to implement ISA PnP and > just messed up.
To 3com's credit, they did offer a utility that allowed one to disable the madn^H^H^H^Hplug-n-play. Cheers, Joost
