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From: tri@niksula.hut.fi (Timo Rinne)
Subject: Re: Difference between 3c501 & 3c503, drivers anyone?
In-Reply-To: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu's message of 14 Jan 93 14:38:01 GMT
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Date: 15 Jan 93 02:30:10
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terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
> eddy@girtab.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) writes:
> > Does anyone have the 501 drivers? otherwise i'll get ahold of 3com
> > for the spec's and get to work 8-)
> I'd advise against it. The 501 can't walk and chew gum at the same
> time. Folks might say it has trouble doing either alone 8-).
I agree that 501 is not a ethernet board for serious UNIX work, but I
cannot understand that how it would be harmful to have driver for it
available. The fact is that there is thousands of 501s and they cost
practically nothing. If I had two machines home I'd like to connect
them through ethernet via 501s rather than serial line.
And still 501 is bad, but there's been worse ethernet connectors in
the past. So if someone makes the driver for 501 I suggest that it is
made public.
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