some *very* old cards have a jumper on the board to select the right interface, but as Mister Newman says there will be a utility to change the setting. Try popping over to www.3com.co.uk Andi Neill Newman <neill@entora.co.uk> on 05/06/2001 14:38:22 To: Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com cc: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [Alug] AUI v BNC ports Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

'Lo all. Does anyone know how to persuade eth0 to use BNC rather than AUI? (I hope I have the correct terminology here). System is debian, card is this bugger of a thing, the 3c509.

older cards had a dos utility program to 'switch' which interface they used, nowadays they do it automatically.. I could be wrong here, but there is a rpm on rufus (rpm archive, rufus.w3.org cool place check it out!) called 3c50x which /might/ do what you want... I've never used it myself so I don't claim anything ;).. hth Neill -- Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368 _______________________________________________ alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list Send list replies to alug@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster@ft.com * *********************************************************************