Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:22:32 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: James FitzGibbon <james@else.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960107142031.13705A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <9601011902.AA12485@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 14:02:57 -0500
> From: Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
> To: James FitzGibbon <james@else.net>
> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter?
>
> [BTW: PLEASE don't post to multiple mailing-lists. It irritates those
> people who read more than one.]
>
> <<On Sun, 31 Dec 1995 19:38:56 -0500 (EST), James FitzGibbon <james@else.net> said:
>
> > Has anyone got support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter working under 2.1?
>
> Last I touched these things, they were based on the National 83C90
> chip, but used a proprietary bus interface that Cabletron would not
> explain to anyone. That was three years ago; things may have gotten
> better now.
>
> -GAWollman
>
> --
I kinda got it working as a NE2000 under Linux with a few twists... might
want to find Linux Docs on it to look at what they say.
Oh, and James: if that is my old Cabletron card i accidentally left at
IO, i burned it out long ago and you'll never get it to work. :)
-Mit
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