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Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???
In-Reply-To: <1904.847950761@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 13, 96 09:52:41 pm"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:02:52 -0800 (PST)
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> > I am not only willing to hand carry them over to David, I will pay him
> > some reasonable fee to work on and fix the driver to support both the new
> > versions of the cards from SMC (SMC9332BDT) and the D-Link DFE-500TX.
> > 
> > If David does not have the time, that offer extends to Matt Thomas
> > as well.  (Except I'll have to FedX the cards to him :-)).
> > 
> > The balls now in your court, I have made the offer of putting the hardware
> > and money in your hands to get some of this fixed....
> 
> And it's appreciated - I'll talk to David about this when I see him in
> Las Vegas on monday.  Unfortunately, we're both going to be stuck at
> COMDEX manning the FreeBSD booth for all of next week, so don't be
> surprised if you don't hear anything back immediately.  We're both
> going to be out of action for at least 10 days as a result of this
> miserable ordeal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwonderful conference.

:-)

Already taken care of, David now has a DFE-500TX rev C1, Kingston KNE100TX
and a Compex ENET100TX-PCI.  Of these a quick look at things shows that
the DFE and KNE cards are using the same chips and shouldn't be too bad
to fix, the Compex is a tossed in thing I had laying around, and I don't
really care if it gets fixed or not.

Lets give David a few days to see what he comes up with...


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