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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100
Date: 4 Feb 1997 13:30:34 GMT
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jmorriso@ConcordPacific.Com (John Paul Morrison) wrote:

> For some reason these same cards work in Linux 2.0.X with *no* change
> in the driver. I guess it helps when someone from Digital who knows
> what they're doing writes the ethernet drivers! (The SMC PCI cards use
> Digital's chipset)

You mean, somebody like Matt Thomas, who wrote the BSD driver? :-)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j