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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SC905-TX (was: 3C900 (EtherLink XL) and FreeBSD ???)
Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:45:16 GMT
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Curt Welch <curt@kcwc.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't mind writing the code if I could get some pointers
> about what it might take and where/how I can get the needed tech
> info on the card.

3Com usually gives away documentation.  Basically, you gotta navigate
through all the marketing hype on their Web server (it's one of the
worse examples for a Web server, at least wrt. technical contents).
Go and find what they call ``3Com facts''.  That's -- oh fun! -- an
automated fax server where you can order an order fax :-O to order
documentation.  You gotta order by fax, of course.  The fax is a
little icky, very small fields.  I've been taking the G3 file (we get
our faxes by a modem), edited it with `xpaint', and faxed this file
again. :)  I wondered how they were able to read it at all.

One wonders what they've got their Webserver and email for...  But to
stop with my complaints, the documentation package (for the 3C59X
family in my case) has been sent quite promptly then.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)