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From: "Matthias Scheler" <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:17:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Help! NetBSD doesn't recognize my ethernet card!
Message-ID: <34100@lyssa.owl.de>
Organization: Private Internet Ostwestfalen-Lippe
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Kenneth C. Yue wrote in comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc about "Re: Help! NetBSD
doesn't recognize my ethernet card!":
> Sorry if I sound mean, but this is really a brain-dead design if these
> parameters are hard-coded into the kernel.

It's not the software which is brain-dead it's the hardware. A decent
ethernet board (e.g. a ReadyLink/PCI) will be automatically configured.

-- 
Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de