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From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Making my Ethernet to work
Date: 24 Feb 1997 16:28:46 GMT
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In article <E5I6Dz.F04@ora.de>, bad@ora.de (Christoph Badura) writes:

> In <5drffu$lhv@Radon.Stanford.EDU> tonychan@cs.Stanford.EDU (Tony Chan)
> writes:

>>Can you please tell me how to setup my Intel Etherexpress Pro ethernet
>>to work?
>>I am currently running NetBSD 0.9.
> 
> I don't think the Inter Etherexpress Pro was supported in 0.9.  A driver
> for that card was added to NetBSD early in May 1996.  I'm not sure it was
> included in the 1.2 release (the WWW page says the card isn't supported.)

This has been corrected... the Web page, that is.

> You could upgrade to 1.2 and then to -current from the source
> distribution.  That is fairly easy, provided you have enought space on
> your disks.

Installing -current won't be necessary. A driver for the Intel Etherexpress
Pro 10 / ISA is available in -1.2; it is called "iy". 

Note that multicast is not yet supported, only unicast and broadcast
packets.

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis
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