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From: louie@uunet.uu.net (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with ethernet on Zenith Laptop
Date: 15 Jan 1994 16:39:58 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
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References: <1994Jan12.043754.26331@midway.uchicago.edu> <1994Jan12.105540.28979@cm.cf.ac.uk> <2h42tuINNd65@network.ucsd.edu>
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Keywords: Zenith Znote network ethernet i8259sx

In article <2h42tuINNd65@network.ucsd.edu>,
David Horwitt <horwitt@cahuilla.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>	The Zenith Z-Note 325L laptop uses the Intel 82593 LAN controller 
>chip with a 82c501 ethernet serial interface chip. 

This also seems to be the case for the 486SL-based Z-Note machines as
well.

> I don't think a *BSD driver
>exists for this; please correct me if I am wrong, and save me the work of
>writing a driver myself. The lack of a network driver is the only thing
>keeping me from installing FreeBSD on my Zenith.

I'm not aware of one, either.  There is some work being done on a
Linux driver, and there exists a DOS packet driver TSR as well.  The
Linux driver, which still seems to be under development is on
ftp.super.org in /pub/linux/pre-alpha/znet.c.

I'd love to have a driver for NetBSD-current, and if I can find some
time, I'd probably start with the Linux driver and whack on it as
required.

Right now, I'm having some problems making a floppy boot disk work on
the thing...



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