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From: mckim@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim)
Subject: Re: Hardware support questions
In-Reply-To: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu's message of Fri, 12 Mar 1993 17:40:07 GMT
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In article <1993Mar12.174007.11120@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

   In article <1993Mar12.044920.26585@zip.eecs.umich.edu> jasonmc@engin.umich.edu (Jason Mccampbell) writes:
   >	Now, the problem.  We have two different Ethernet cards we want to
   >use.  Two are 3Com 3c503 cards; the other two are 3c505's.  Are there
   >drivers to support these cards?  Just in case, we also have two PC586
   >Ethernet cards from Intel, but they were discontinued 5 years ago, so I
   >assume there probably aren't any drivers for them.

   My mostly-generic 82586-based-Ethernet driver should work for this
   card with the addition/modification of about three routines.  (I
   considered doing this myself, but I don't have one, so I decided
   against it.)  If you have enough technical information about this
   board, or the source to a Packet Driver for it, then you should be
   able to make it work.

We have a few of these pc586 cards in my lab.  I looked into doing a
port of your driver.  The meager documentation that came with the
cards indicates the cards have no I/O ports - the registers must be
memory mapped. If someone knows where the registers are, the rest
would be easy.
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