From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 24 21:24:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14108 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14099 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 21:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id XAA15070; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:24:12 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199607250424.XAA15070@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Anyone remember this mail? To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:24:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199607250132.SAA09348@shrimp.whistle.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Jul 24, 96 06:32:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A long time ago someone mentionned a utility from linux > that configured ethernet cards.. > i.e. did what the manufacturer's 'setup' programs do.. > > does anyone remember this email and have any information.. > I've tried the mail archives but am not > getting any hits.. Julian, Actually, it might have been me... and if so, it wasn't Linux, but rather Lynx (a real-time UNIX-like OS) who apparently "ported" SMC's ezsetup software to their system... very impressive actually. That's not a lot of help, of course, but I was hoping that the fact that others had succeeded in doing it might serve as inspiration to some CS undergrad.. ;-) ... JG