[ILUG] 3c905C

[Gavin Killen]

Millions of those damn cards around 

Mainly gateway and dell took a heap and oem'ed them but drivers are
plentiful enough on their sites

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Airlie [mailto:david.airlie at ul.ie]
Sent: 07 October 1999 17:00
To: Raymond Kelly
Cc: Liam Bedford; ILUG
Subject: Re: [ILUG] 3c905C



Check the 3COM website they do drivers for Linux now themselves...

Dave.

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Raymond Kelly wrote:

> Liam Bedford wrote:
> > 
> > This card seems to have been foisted upon the world (I hadn't heard
owt
> > about it)... anyway, I have a machine in the US to be installed, and
the
> > network boot disk
> > in 6.0 doesn't support it (amazingly enough :))... anyone got any
ideas?
> > (rebuilding
> > the kernel and fiddling with the boot disk isn't really an option..
> 
> Those cards are only avaliable for the last 2 to 3 weeks methinks
which
> may be a reason as to its non support yet
> The easiest option I'd say would be to find a 3c905"B" somewhere & do
a
> swap, it shouldn't be a problem as there are literally Millions of
those
> things abound & even if there isn't one to hand they're not too pricey
> (especially if someone else is payin)
> 
> Has Mr. Becker got anything to say about these cards ?? I can't
remember
> the URL & am too lazy to go trolling through src so I haven't checked
> it.
> 
> 	Ray ...
> 
> 

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