From owner-minix-l@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Fri Jun 6 04:42:56 1997 Received: from listserv.nodak.edu (listserv.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.8]) by hamp.hampshire.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA17364 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 04:42:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from listserv (134.129.111.8) by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.1A2A6F00@listserv.nodak.edu>; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 3:38:30 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU by LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 467455 for MINIX-L@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 03:38:29 -0500 Received: from louie.udel.edu by listserv.nodak.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.B3BAA330@listserv.nodak.edu>; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 3:28:29 -0500 Received: from louie.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id aa10870; 6 Jun 97 4:28 EDT Received: from USENET by louie.udel.edu id aa10868; 6 Jun 97 4:28 EDT Received: from dewey.udel.edu by louie.udel.edu id aa10860; 6 Jun 97 4:28 EDT NNTP-Posting-Host: mega.am.cs.vu.nl Xref: udel-eecis comp.os.minix:31387 Message-ID: <2ef8n5.541.ln@mega.am.cs.vu.nl> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:49:21 +0200 Reply-To: Kees J Bot Sender: Minix operating system From: Kees J Bot Organization: One Minix-vmd system, it works! Subject: Re: Network Card Support in Minix Comments: To: info-minix@louie.udel.edu To: MINIX-L@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Status: R In article , Scott A Stevens wrote: > [...] >there are any alternatives to the NE2000 card that I can run on my newest >box, a 386sx running Minix 2.0. I'd like to plug in one of the 3-Com >cards and not have to go out and buy something new. Is this possible? In ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/kjb/3com/3com.taz you can find a driver for the 3c503 card written by G. Falzoni that you can try. It contains a number of replacements and a few new files. Like any other .TAZ file it is a compressed tar file relative to /usr, so you can either put it on a floppy and run 'setup /usr' or do the following: cd /usr zcat ...../3com.taz | tar xvfp - Next run 'make clean' in src/kernel/ and build a new kernel. Reboot, set DPETH0=io_addr:irq to the board's I/O address and an IRQ equal to 3, 4, 5, or 9. Then, whether it works or not, SEND ME A MESSAGE. I have asked several people to tell me if it works or not and all I got was silence. This is quite disappointing. -- Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Dept. Math&CS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Minix: http://www.cs.vu.nl/ftp/minix/ ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/ Minix-vmd: http://Minix-vmd.cs.vu.nl/ ftp://Minix-vmd.cs.vu.nl/