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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: who uses the netboot loader???
Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:48:45 GMT
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"Marc E. Fiuczynski" <mef@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

> Currently I have the 3c905 working mostly, which is a 100Mb/s card. 
> Mostly, for this to work requires mbuf support, memory allocation and
> deallocation, some components from isa.c and pcibus.c.  I will release
> this work when I'm done.  However, this probably wont happen for another
> month, because I'm leaving for an extended vacation this Sunday. :)

Would this still go into en EPROM on the card, or is it just a plain
netboot.com only?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)