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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (seph)
Mon Jan 8 21:33:34 2001

Message-Id: <200101090233.VAA13995@ten-thousand-dollar-bill.mit.edu>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:33:27 -0500
From: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>

> 	sly: Also linux-dev, also 3Com sucks.  The 3c905C seems to
> 		have changed something in its firmware to cause the
> 		current driver on the SIPB Linux install disk to not
> 		work.  Seph built a new disk, but it doesn't work;
> 		we're trying to find a card, and hopefully the new
> 		machine has one.
> 

this confuses me. the install disk does work, the installed system
does not work. I consider this distinction highly meaningful, as the
latter is much simpler to kludge around.

seph

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