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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!cunews!revcan!quantum!aboyd
- From: aboyd@quantum.on.ca (Andrew Boyd)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet drivers
- Message-ID: <#xdngk+@quantum.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:31:34 GMT
- Organization: Quantum Software Systems
- References: <1992Aug28.114807.7765@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.114807.7765@athena.mit.edu> cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
- (Craig Metz) talks about how it would be nice to support the 3com503 and
- 3com 505:
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- Actually, the 503 is very similar to the wd (now smc) 8003 series of
- cards - both use the 8390 NIC. If you folks already have a driver for
- the 8003, you won't find it too big a job to support the 503 - just
- different locate and init code. The runtime code is identical.
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- The 505 is quite different, though - it has a 186 cpu on board, and a
- totally different interface than the 503.
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