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From: rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel 100Mb Ethernet-adapter
Date: 12 Jun 1996 22:32:39 GMT
Organization: SimpleX Networking Amsterdam
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Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:
: haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel) writes:

: >If you have a PCI EtherExpress Pro 100 board and it looks like this:
: >(i.e. has a diagonal cutaway over the back end of the PCI connector)
: >then it is the 82557-based board and *is* supported by FreeBSD 2.2.

Suppose I have this board, and want to use it under 2.1R, is it possible
to hack the new driver into the kernel ?  And if so, which files are to
be put in .. ?

- Rob.

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