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From: hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress and 386bsd
Date: 19 Mar 1994 07:46:01 GMT
Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd.
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Mark S. Burgess (markb@nic.cerf.net) wrote:
: That card will not work. We have the same thing here.
: You can't set the IRQ's to the proper locations to
: get the connection to the ed ports.
Not withstanding the fact that the card is totally different from anything
supported by the ed driver. The Etherexpress is based on an 82586 rather
than an 8390.
From what I am able to discern; the EtherExpress was designed by some
engineer on hallucinogens doing pennance for some other failed Intel
project.
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