Subj : unixs on a 386
To   : David Drummond
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Fri Nov 23 2001 10:14 am

David Drummond wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 DD> I don't beleive I've ever seen an AT&T computer in this country.

They were made by some other company,  the name of which escapes me at the 
moment,  and marked under that name outside the US.

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 CA>>> I downloaded a 12 meg file once trying to get a network
 CA>>> card working that everyone insisted would work. It didn't.
 CA>>> I've tilted enough windmills in my time. 

 DD>> What sort of network card? 

 CA> SMC 

 DD>> All I've ever tried have worked - from strange 8 bit clones
 DD>> of an NE1000, to the current range of Intel 100mbps models. 

 CA> I didn't say the card doesn't work. I said the drivers for it
 CA> didn't work. I really don't know if the card works or not. It
 CA> was not originally mine.s 

 DD> You didn't get to test the card by some other method?

 DD> (The PC card NIC in my old notebook is an SMC - Slackware 4 worked
 DD> on that straight out of the packet)

Is it an _ethernet_ card?  I have a couple of SMC cards here -- but they're 
ARCnet cards!  Dunno if I'll ever use them...

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