Subject: Re: network i/f
To: Andrew McMurry <a.mcmurry1@physics.oxford.ac.uk>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@mpc-data.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 09/16/1998 11:26:16
Andrew McMurry wrote:
> 
> I have a system very like this with a RiscPC and a CATS based system.
> My RiscPC's ethernet card is an old ANT Ether3 podule.  This has
> 10BaseT only, but has no problems with being set up by NetBSD without
> RISCOS getting a look in. I know this because to start with, RISCOS
> was not aware of the card, although NetBSD was. (I hadn't changed a
> link to sya that the ROM I put in for StrongARM compatability was
> bigger than the one I took out).
> 
The advice given is specific to the EtherH (Etherlan600) podules and
probably any other NIC driver which tries to detect between 10BaseT and
10Base2 connections. A 10BaseT only card would not have this problem.

Mike