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From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: I got this terrific deal on two network cards...
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
References: <287lru$gfe@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
Message-ID: <CE2A60.2nn@dragon.dsh.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 11:20:23 GMT
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In article <287lru$gfe@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
=>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.
=>
Fun, fun.
=>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.
=>
Should work fine. All you need is to write a driver for it. :-( On
the other hand, you might have to tweak TCP/IP to support ARCNET
encoding. ifconfig, too.
=>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?
Not too likely. They don't even use the same pins on twisted pair.
You may be better off picking up a couple cheap Western Digital clone
ethernet cards.
Gary D. Duzan
Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts