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Re: question about NIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt debergalis)
Wed Dec 16 22:51:33 1998
To: Sean M Maguire <sleeper@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 1998 22:51:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: Sean M Maguire's message of Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:43 EST
> I was reading the documentation for NetBSD/Athena and it mentions that
> the 3Com 3C905B is not supported. I have a 3C905B-TX, and was
> wondering if it would be possible for me to set up NetBSD/Athena using
> that card despite what the dvi file says.
"not yet."
you've got a couple options. the most recent version of the sources
contains support for this card, so you could build a -current kernel and
use that. (the netbsd-athena machine i'm sending this from uses a 905B
by doing exactly that.) the disadvantage to that is that you'll be
running current source, not a stable release.
the driver for the 905B is also being backported to 1.3.3 (coming out
soon). you could either wait for a newer netbsd-athena release based on
that, or use a custom 1.3.3 kernel with the current release.
ex0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX Ethernet
ex0: interrupting at irq 10
ex0: MAC address 00:10:5a:12:1f:ab
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
matt
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