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From: [e-mail] (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Driver for T5200's Ethernet Interface?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:45:51 GMT
Organization: STONE Project, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of 16 Nov 1992 19:33:01 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> 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
- documented (at least in the standard documentation of the T5200).  The
- only driver I have for this interface is the one delivered Toshiba's
- own Unix (TP/IX), not even one for DOS.  This ethernet interface does
- not work with any of the clarkson packet drivers, I've been told.
-
- I'd like to run 386bsd on this machine.  I tried it with 0.0new, which
- worked, but it was no fun without a network (except to localhost :-}).
- Before I take the effort to install the recent version of 386bsd, I'd
- like to know:
-     Does a driver for this ethernet interface exist?
-     Does anyone know of a description of the interface?

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?).

Anyone a clue?

--
Juergen Nickelsen