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- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Driver for T5200's Ethernet Interface?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.160125.15873@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <NICKEL.92Nov16203300@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> <NICKEL.92Nov19194551@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:01:25 GMT
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- In article <NICKEL.92Nov19194551@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
- |In article <NICKEL.92Nov16203300@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> in
- |comp.unix.bsd I wrote:
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- |- The Toshiba T5200 laptop (or better portable, considered the weight)
- |- has a non-standard ethernet interface built in, which is not
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- |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?).
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- Yank the thing and put in a SMC8003EP or something that is supported.
- That, and the 3Com 8-bit cards, should easily fit in a half-slot.
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- --
- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
- radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
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