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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Need 3c501 driver
- Message-ID: <726641774snx@crynwr.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 06:59:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.001355.12354@brainiac.mn.org>
- Organization: Crynwr Software
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1993Jan9.001355.12354@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org writes:
-
- In article <726375686snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes: >In article <1993Jan6.031516.25491@brainiac.mn.org> jrc@brainiac.mn.org writes: >
- > I am sure somebody out there has hacked a 3c501 driver for Linux. If
- > you have one, please email it to me.......
- >
- >Go buy yourself a real Ethernet card. You can get NE2000 clones for
- >under $100 now...
- >
-
- I don't want to buy a real ethernet card. I have a real ethernet card. I
- also have some crappy ethernet cards, and I need a driver for them. They
- aren't even 3c501's, they are 3c500's - those big blue monsters that shipped
- in '85.
-
- Next time someone asks me for a packet driver, I'm gonna say 'go get a real
- ndis driver', just so I can be a prick like you.
-
- I'm sorry you feel that way. There is no way to write a 3c501 driver
- with performance proportional to the speed of a 386. What you are
- trying to do is the equivalent to running Linux of a 80ms 20Mb MFM
- drive. Most people would probably think that unreasonable...
-
- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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