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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:27:01 +0900 (JST)
From: Naoki Hamada <nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp>
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In-reply-to: J Wunsch's message of "Sat, 2 Nov 1996 10:50:47 +0100 (MET)"
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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
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J"org wrote:
>The driver usually misdetects them only.  According to 3Com's manual,
>these early revision adapters were really unusable.

Though they say that early revision adapters are unusable, I and many
testers of our revised vx driver can use 'defective' adapters pretty
well.

- nao