David Warren <warren_at_atmos.washington.edu> wrote the following:
> 3COM does not make UNIX drivers. The PCI standard relates
> to plug and play within the bus, not how to address card
> functions. If all ethernet cards worked the same way, this
> could work, but as the all have propriety code on them,
> the company that builds the card needs to write a driver.
Dr. Tom Blinn <tpb_at_zk3.dec.com> wrote the following:
> We recently added support in Digital UNIX for the 3Com
> Etherlink III PCMCIA card, and I thought that driver
> *might* work with your board, but I checked with our
> driver wizard and he said this:
>>
>> We don't support a driver for the 3C905.
>>
>> No, the EtherLink III driver will not work for the 3C905 (totally
>> different port architecture).
Basically, if I want to use this card, I have to write the
driver. I think for now, I'll pass.
Thank you all,
Jeff
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Received on Fri Aug 01 1997 - 21:29:33 NZST