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Re: question about NIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt debergalis)
Fri Feb 5 11:57:38 1999
To: Sean M Maguire <sleeper@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 05 Feb 1999 11:57:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: Sean M Maguire's message of "Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:47:16 EST"
Sean> I have a 3Com "Fast EtherLink XL NIC (3C905B-TX)" according to
Sean> NT. The default kernel does not recognize my card. If I
Sean> could get a custom kernel to do so, that would be great. I
Sean> did not know netbsd-athena-8.2 was using the 1.3.3 kernel,
Sean> which I knew to be the earliest kernel to support my card.
ah...
unfortunately, neither 1.3.2 nor 1.3.3 supports the 905B.
netbsd-current does, but that can get somewhat involved.
there was a rumor that the 905B driver would be backported to 1.3.3, but
i haven't heard anything recently.
matt
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