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Re: Re 3c905c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Sat Jan 6 01:20:22 2001
Message-Id: <UuJfWzNz0001NTRIkM@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:18:39 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sly@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200101060611.BAA02182@riff-raff.mit.edu>
Excerpts from mail: 6-Jan-101 Re: Re 3c905c Garry Zacheiss@MIT.EDU (1017)
> Except this isn't the observed behavior. SIPB has a GX110,
> pickled-herring.mit.edu, which was installed with the SIPB installer
> reasonably recently:
Interesting.
It's been many months and many crises since I cooked the configuration,
so there's the chance I'm full of it here. But my recollection and the
saws_config.html page show that the GX110's use a 3c905c NIC.
If the SIPB installer works for pickled-herring.mit.edu that either
means that it works with the3c 905c NIC, or that someone put a more
ancient NIC into the PCI bus to install with.
The older GX1's ship with an onboard 3c905b NIC. One reason why I know
this so well was that I was there waiting for tb to cook new floppies
that handle the OTHER NIC (IE to add the 3c905c etherboot driver to the
floppy. In fact that is the later image in the bootkit locker.)
Someone should glance at pickled-herring.mit.edu and see if it's plugged
into the net via the motherboard or an additional card...
-wdc
