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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 1999 15:24:04 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        "Richard B. Talley" <olny@nmia.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lantastic NICs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9910261521300.48251-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <m11gChP-002xHeC@socrates.nmia.com>

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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Richard B. Talley wrote:

> There is a jumper, W10 on most models, with three pins. Connect the pins 
> on the side marked 'A' and you get AE2 behavior. Connect the pins on the 
> side marked 'N' and you get NE2000 behavior. There are other jumpers on 
> these NIC's to set IRQ and IOBASE. I should still have documentation on 
> these cards somewhere if you need more information. They are good, clean 
> NE2000 clones.

Actually, they suck at being NE2000 clones.  Last time I tried using
several in NE2000 mode under FreeBSD, every card got the same MAC
address.  Anyway, some of those cards are jumperless, such as the
NodeRunner2000.  You can still download the software to configure
these from Artisoft's website.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development).
   ( http://www.freebsd.org )

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