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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
To: nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (Naoki Hamada)
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:37:50 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Naoki Hamada who wrote:
> J"org wrote:
> >The driver usually misdetects them only.  According to 3Com's manual,
> >these early revision adapters were really unusable.
> 
> Though they say that early revision adapters are unusable, I and many
> testers of our revised vx driver can use 'defective' adapters pretty
> well.

On what do you base that, from the defective message from the old
driver ??, or by checking the serial number against 3com. 


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