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- From: maassen@kreon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Maassen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Beta TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <maassen.714912944@kreon>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 10:55:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> <714839549snx@crynwr.com>
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- nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug25.233806.11161@morrow.stanford.edu> bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
-
- > Currently only the Western Digital Ethercard Plus and compatibles
- > are supported (wd80[01]3 boards). If you have a different ethernet
- > board you will either have to write your own driver or wait until
- > someone else does (There is someone who claims to be working on
- > drivers for many different ethernet boards.)
-
- >Yes. I'm going to get a NE2000 driver going first, because they're
- >so ubiquitious and cheap. Any votes for what comes after that?
- >3Com's brand new 3c509 is a pretty high-tech card...
-
- >-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
- >Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
- >11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice
- >Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX
-
- I have a SMC Elite16 EtherCard Plus. Apologies if this is a silly question,
- but is this one of the compatibles? If not, take this as a request for
- writing a corresponding driver.
-
- Andreas Maassen
- (maassen@parsytec.de)
-