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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Availability of *non* PnP ethernet card
Date: 2 Jul 1997 14:02:42 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST
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References: <86pvt3m6ml.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <86radhdh44.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <5ped6c$kj@atlantis.utmb.edu> <rznn2o5ji7i.fsf@mstar.astro.psu.edu>
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:In article <rznn2o5ji7i.fsf@mstar.astro.psu.edu>,
:Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> wrote:
:>In article <5ped6c$kj@atlantis.utmb.edu> bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
:>(M. L. Dodson) writes:
:>
:>> kin. That's just a fact of life. I don't think Bill will sue you in
:>> an international court if you boot your friend's DOS diskette and fix
:>> your ethernet card. Look at it this way. Unless you assembled the
:>
:>Besides, Caldera OpenDOS is freely available, and certainly has been
:>sufficient for me to soft-configure my ethernet cards. See
:>www.caldera.com for details.
Also, it should be noted that PCI cards are a whole different
ballgame. If you have a pentium, just don't buy any old ISA
cards (except maybe a busmouse card). The PCI stuff is much
more dependable.
-Matt