From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 14 07:43:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA20826 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 07:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [198.108.1.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA20817 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 07:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20900 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:43:42 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id KAA17350 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:43:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199710141443.KAA17350@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:43:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a laptop which is running older (2.1.5) FreeBSD and for reasons I won't go into is not able to be upgraded to a FreeBSD which understands the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card. So, question is: where does one obtain the older (considered "obsolete" by 3COM -- I just called them) 3COM 3C589C PCMCIA card? Do I just start calling vendors one-by-one from the backs of PC magazines? Or is there a more intelligent way to track down one of these puppies? Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network, Inc. Email: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Phone: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 647-3185 [ What's all this fuss over the end of the century and mission critial ] [ programs failing due to dates? If people simply started using Roman ] [ Numerials, the problem goes away! MCM = 1900 MIM = 1999 MM = 2000 ]