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From: geh@netcom.com (Greg Holdren)
Subject: Re: HP LAN Card Support
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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 07:26:20 GMT
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Allen Mar (allenm@sfu.ca) wrote:
: geh@netcom.com (Greg Holdren) writes:


: I'd be very interested to see support for HP27245 and HP27247 cards.
: Right now we have FreeBSD installed with an old 8-bit 3COM card, but
: HP LAN cards are really our NIC's of choice right now...

You can still get the 8 bit 27245 card but the 27247A is now 27247B (TP)
and the ThinLAN counter part, 27252A.

I'll have to ask on the HP MSDOS groups about the drivers. I think
I've seen a message in the past about them.


Greg Holdren
geh@netcom.com
gregh@hprnd.rose.hp.com