From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 11 10:45:57 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA28292 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:45:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA28287 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:45:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA13353; Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:45:15 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:45:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199612111845.LAA13353@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, pst@shockwave.com Subject: Re: PC CARD stuff In-Reply-To: References: <199612101408.GAA01396@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm thinking of going out and getting one of the 3COM 3c589 cards > > and a Megahertz 3811 cellular modem, but the combo is /not/ cheap. > > I got the 3com 3c589 to use in a Toshiba 115cs as a cheap portable net > monitor. Lo, it won't go into promiscuous mode, so it's not a very useful > net monitor. Are you running 2.1.6.1 on it? I fixed a bug sometime around the 2.1.5 time that supposedly fixed promiscious mode in the zp driver. > For modem, I'm using a Motorola Montana ("named after the state with no > speed limits") Hey, that's not true. :) Our speed limit is 'Safe and Prudent', which in reality kicks in about 80 mph. Nate