On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:49:54PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 14:24:30 +0100, Houten K.H.C. van (Karel) <vhouten@kpn.com> > wrote in message <200203151324.OAA18816@sparta.research.kpn.com>: [SNIP] > > He uses my kernel image. I'm sure I've included the DECStation 5000 > > ethernet card, because the same image works OK on other DECStations. > > I don't have access to a 5000/25 however. > > ...but Linux doesn't recognize the NIC on this box. Karel, digging > unto deep layers of my bad memory I can remember that some DECstations > had a different NIC or different way to access it or so. I've got > some different DECstations, but there's one which I cannot really > use because of lacking support for the nic. The box was supported > at some time (there at least exists some old hacked network driver > for 2.1.53 or so), but I do no longer have access to the file (my > laptop was stolen this week and the driver was in my TODO directory, > not backup'ed:-( That was the LANCE driver for the 5000/200, which is different from the driver for all the 5000/xx, /1xx, /240 and /260. The Maxine should work with the default declance.c from the CVS. Regards, Karsten -- Gemaess Par. 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung und der Weitergabe meiner Daten zum Zwecke der Werbung sowie der Markt- oder Meinungsforschung.
