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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-1.1.5] Can I use 3c579?
Date: 2 Aug 1994 17:04:59 GMT
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IKEMOTO Masahiro (ikeyan@airlab.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp) wrote:
: Well.. My machine(Dell Omniplex) has EISA bus. So I'll buy 3c579.
: 3c579 is EISA version of 3c509, isn't it?

: Can 3c579 be used on FreeBSD-1.1.5? Or.. 3c509 is safer than 3c579?

I know that 3c579's work under NetBSD and I'm assuming that FreeBSD 
picked up the NetBSD code... Perhaps one of them will want to verify this.

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