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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.hk.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!phase2.worldnet.att.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!nwfocus.wa.com!news-wa16.mdd.comm.mot.com!lego.wes.mot.com!mothost.mot.com!lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com!c12877 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32A4B723.41C6@comm.mot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pluto.comm.mot.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) 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. -------------------------------- 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