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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: I got this terrific deal on two network cards...
Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:27:12 -0500
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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I recently purchased two PC network cards for $10.  Total.  I thought it
was a pretty good deal.

They are marked with an IBM number (that has been mostly scraped off
with a razor blade).  They are also marked as Arcnet cards.

I know that Arcnet and Ethernet are generally incompatible, but I was
wondering if anyone has any idea if I could get any use out of these
cards on my NetBSD box and my wife's PC.  If anyone has any good ideas,
I would be happy to listen to them.

These cards also seem to have a personality module one them (orange
plastic poured over a half dozen good sized components).  Would it be
theoretically possible to remove that and change these boards so that
they will directly support an Ethernet connection?
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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX