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Re: NI5210 support?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Robinson)
Tue Nov 19 11:33:52 1996

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:33:42 GMT
From: John Robinson <john@intelligent.co.uk>
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Gene Wilburn writes ("NI5210 support?"):
> The HOWTOs say the NI5210 ethernet card is supported, but when I do a make
> xconfig, the NI5210 line is dimmed out and I can't select it.  We have a
> small number of old 8-bit NI5210 cards I was hoping to use in a small home
> network.  When something is listed but dimmed, does that mean that support
> was planned but never implemented?

IME it usually means you forgot to turn something further up the
screen on, e.g. 'Other ISA cards'. Check the indenting; on some of the
pages (not the network device one, I know) you can follow upwards to
the next level of indenting to find out what you forgot.

John, HTH.
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