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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Network support in NetBSD.
Date: 2 Jun 1994 13:45:57 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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In article <2skita$jto@hermod.uio.no>, thomasbe@uio.no (Thomas Berge) writes:
|> I use NetBSD on a 386DX/33, and according to the INSTALL_DOC only a few net-
|> work cards are supported.
|> 
|> I have managed to get hold of a Novell NE2000 (which is one of the supported 
|> cards), and this card works well. In addition, I would like to add another
|> network-adapter but can't get hold of any adapters using a different IRQ.
|> (Trying to use an adapter on another address, but using the same IRQ causes
|> the system to crash when trying to access the network adapter through soft-
|> ware...)
|> 
|> Does anybody know how one could, for instance, get NetBSD to support a Xircom
|> parallell network-adapter or at least a few more network-adapters?

3com 3c503 are supported by NetBSD 0.9. here is a part of my config file (for
NetBSD-current, but it should work for 0.9) which allow me to use my 486 box
as a gateway whith 2 3c503.

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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