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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Driver for T5200's Ethernet Interface?
Message-ID: <1992Nov20.160125.15873@sci34hub.sci.com>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
References: <NICKEL.92Nov16203300@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> <NICKEL.92Nov19194551@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:01:25 GMT
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In article <NICKEL.92Nov19194551@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
|In article <NICKEL.92Nov16203300@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> in
|comp.unix.bsd I wrote: 

|- The Toshiba T5200 laptop (or better portable, considered the weight)
|- has a non-standard ethernet interface built in, which is not

|After a closer look and some help I know now that it is a Toshiba
|ethernet card in a PC-compatible slot (half-length). In the
|documentation it is called "LAN card for ethernet" (very specific,
|isn't it?).

Yank the thing and put in a SMC8003EP or something that is supported.
That, and the 3Com 8-bit cards, should easily fit in a half-slot.

-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...