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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Paisley, Todd G." <tgpaisl@missi.ncsc.mil>
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Subject: Re: 3com 3C590 PCI ethernet card
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On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Paisley, Todd G. wrote:

> 
> Ooops!  My fingers weren't working right.  I meant 3Com 3C590 PCI ethernet 
> card, not a 3C509 ISA card.  I don't know how to set up a PCI card with 
> Unix.

Heh.  That is much easier:  just plug it in.  The PCI bus implements REAL
plug & play.  It'll be found and configured on startup.  If you need to
make IRQ changes, you do that through BIOS setup.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major