SUMMARY: 3com etherlink XL PCI combo card & Treu64 Unix

From: lombardi emanuele <lele_at_mantegna.casaccia.enea.it>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:18:13 +0200 (MET DST)

Dear friends,
thanks for your replies.
Unfortunately the answer is that the card is NOT supported.

Here the replies:

alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
        Digital rarely supported random 3rd party add-on hardware
        since we had more than enough work just to support our
        own hardware. I've seen little to suggest that Compaq
        will treat things any differently. If you have a 3rd
        party piece of hardware you want to use, you should see
        if the vendor can provide a driver.

"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
        Ask 3Com. Unless 3Com have written a driver for that card and deliver it
        through their own channels of distribution, it's not supported. There is
        no driver for that option in the standard Tru64 UNIX distribution, and in
        addition, there is no driver for it in the console firmware, so you could
        not use it, for example, to install the system over the network.

aad_at_nw.verio.net
        My experience with 3com cards on other platforms is that they're junk anyway.

Jason Orendorf <orendorf_at_alf.dec.com>
        Software Product Descriptions for Compaq products describe what
        devices and configurations are supported. These are accessible
        from
        http://www.digital.com/SPD/
        The Tru64 UNIX SPD does not list the 3Com card as a supported
        option.

"Hoai Tran" <Tran.Hoai_at_a2.abc.net.au>
        I do not think so.


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