From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 19 8:58: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7C911943 for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:57:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA13473; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:57:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:57:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Rob Schofield Cc: Free BSD Hardware list Subject: Re: Digital DE201 / DE205 card In-Reply-To: <36CD50D7.270B@xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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