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Re: sipb installer w/ 3c509b ISA

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu Oct 26 16:39:53 2000

Message-Id: <200010262039.QAA00696@myxomycete.mit.edu>
To: Kenneth C Barr <kbarr@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:17:16 EDT."
             <Pine.LNX.4.21L.0010261613500.15969-100000@m38-370-4.mit.edu> 
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:39:34 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>


FWIW, I installed just fine with a 3c509.  The selection from the list
of cards was a "3Com Etherlink III", and from there, it just worked.

> It's just bizarre that the bootnet.img and sipb disk can't get the card to
> work when it works fine in linux.

You should note that as far as hardware support goes, the SIPB disk
isn't any different from a Red Hat 6.2 disk.

-Camilla

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