Subject: Re: SPARCstation 1+
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/21/2002 11:37:52
Hello Mouse,

  dM> Yes (as you can see from the AUI port on the back).

It hasn't arrived yet, but it's on its way :-)  If it's an
AUI port I'll have to dig up a 10baseT transceiver from
somewhere.  That's okay though.

  dM> The LANCE (the 7990 variant, I think) - the le driver.
    > Yes, various SBus le cards exist, often with a SCSI
    > interface on the card as well.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for one of those then.

  dM> In passing, why would it bother you to have two
    > different Ethernet drivers in the kernel?

It wouldn't exactly bother me, but presumably it would take
up a little more RAM and introduce one more opportunity for
things to conflict (just trying to Keep It Simple, See :-)

  - Andy Ball