Subject: Re: le0 at pci0 problems
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/10/2002 10:07:58
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 01:29:19PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> In message <20020609202612.E4684@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>David Laight writes
> >On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:16:12PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> >> Approximately no ethernet cards have 10base5.
> >
> >Which definition of 'none' would that be?
> 
> Uh.... I think it's the definition of `10base5'. He's saying there are
> ~0 cards with thick-coax vampire taps built onto the card, as opposed
> to using D/I/X v{1,2}transciever cables/802 AUI ports, connected to
> 10base5 transcievers.
> 
> Perhaps there were some oddball cards had direct N-series screw
> connectors, but we'd all really be better off forgetting such things,
> along with DIX-v1 vs -v2 problems.


Sorry - my brain got frazzled!


	David

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