From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 24 20:33:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA12287 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12282 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01176; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:32:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Troi Eisler cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card Support In-Reply-To: <33F88565.41C67EA6@istar.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Troi Eisler wrote: > Hi. I am in the process of purchasing FreeBSD 2.2.2 and need to also > purchase a PCMCIA Ethernet card. According to the website, the 3Com > Etherlink III card is supported. As there are new "flavors" of these > cards brought out from time to time I would like to confirm that the > 3c589 version of the EtherLink III card is supported. Also, if there is > another prefered PCMCIA ethernet card I would appreciate any > suggestions. If youwant to use the built-in driver, you have to have a C or newer revision. If you download the PAO boot floppy from http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO, you can probably use later revisions. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo