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From: "Ross J. Lillie" <lillie@comm.mot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 3Com Etherlink III support on boot floppy
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 17:26:27 -0600
Organization: Motorola LMPS Systems Technology Research
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Has anyone investigated the patches that need to be made to allow
the current FreeBSD boot floppy (and FreeBSD itself) to support all
variants of 3COM's PCMCIA Etherlink III cards.

In particular, the boot floppy properly configures the 3C589B series 
of Etherlink cards, but not 3C589C variants.  Once I get a distribution
loaded to my system (using a friend's 3COM card) and apply the PAO
patches from Japan, both 3COM Etherlink cards variants are recognized.

Haven't had time to look at this myself.  Any help provided would be
great.  In particular, is a boot floppy available for the 2.2 Alpha
release with the necessary patches applied to the standalone kernel?

Thanks in advance.
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Ross J. Lillie				Email:lillie@comm.mot.com
LMPS Systems Technology Research   	Phone: 847.576.0012
Motorola, Inc.				  Fax: 847.576.3240
1301 E. Algonquin Rd.  IL02/2240
Schaumburg, Illinois, USA - 60196