Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:57:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Rob Schofield <schofiel@xs4all.nl> Cc: Free BSD Hardware list <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Digital DE201 / DE205 card Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9902191156060.15262-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <36CD50D7.270B@xs4all.nl>
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Rob Schofield wrote: > Peter Brevik wrote: > > I happend to get my hands on a Digital DE201 or? DE205 ethernet card. However > > it seems to have a port that I don't think is related to ethernet. So I > > wonder if someone have a clue what it is for.. ? > > (and it's not PS/2 because I tried both the ps/2 keyboard andmouse there) > > If I recall rightly, this is the port for the DEC "Hockey Puck" style > mouse, which is not PS/2 compatible. > > There was a thread about this recently on comp.sys.dec. Why the heck do you assume some random port on a -network- card would have anything to do with mice? It looks like one of the cards in the picture is an appletalk card. Actually providing a scaned picture of the component side of the card would have been more useful. Plugging random stuff into unknown cards is a good way to let the magic smoke out. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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