port-i386: Re: Setting up a new server, help with hardware choices

Subject: Re: Setting up a new server, help with hardware choices
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/1998 15:52:58

>On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 04:42:13PM +0200, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:
>I forgot to mention one thing..
>
>> 1 x 3Com 3C900 Ethernet combo PCI
>
>..that's a 10Mbit BNC/TP/AUI card, isn't it? I don't think it does
>100. You definitely don't want that one.. You need a 905-TX if
>you want it to be supported in 1.3.2.

AFAIK, the 3c900 still works fine on 1.3.2, but the card only supports
10Mbit media.  It's the DMA-only 3c90xB (Boomerang) which we don't
support yet, and I don't know if a 10Mbit combo version exists.

Frank, what doesn't work with the 3c900 combo?