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To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu>
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Subject: Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> I have a laptop which is running older (2.1.5) FreeBSD and
> for reasons I won't go into is not able to be upgraded to
> a FreeBSD which understands the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card.
> 
> So, question is: where does one obtain the older (considered
> "obsolete" by 3COM -- I just called them) 3COM 3C589C PCMCIA
> card?  Do I just start calling vendors one-by-one from the
> backs of PC magazines?  Or is there a more intelligent way
> to track down one of these puppies?

I'll gladly swap a 3c589c for any of the PAO supported PCCARD 
network cards (see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO).  My impression 
of their performance is somewhat lacking (~200k/sec on average).

> Regards,
> 
> web...
> 
> -- 
> William Bulley, N8NXN              Senior Systems Research Programmer
> Merit Network, Inc.                Email: web@merit.edu
> 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C        Phone: (313) 764-9993
> Ann Arbor, Michigan  48105-2785    Fax:   (313) 647-3185
> 
> [ What's all this fuss over the end of the century and mission critial ]
> [ programs failing due to dates?  If people simply started using Roman ]
> [ Numerials, the problem goes away!  MCM = 1900  MIM = 1999  MM = 2000 ]

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....