Re: Tulip NIC List?

Subject: Re: Tulip NIC List?
From: rgp systems (rgp@systame.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 16:10:41 MDT

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Just so happens I bought a netgear card before I got this message from you
(I get the digest). Can you elaborate on how to 'trick' the card?

>>
>
> As a rule of thumb all 3COM, Intel, AMD and Tulip cards are endian safe,
> case in point, the RS/6000 port. The B50 uses a PCNet32 compatible
> controller (also compatibel with the Dec net cards) and both are endian
> safe. I have besides my RS pool a couple of macs at home (Which I bought to
> run mkLinux on them) and have both Intel derivative and NetGear cards, they
> both work although I had to trick the NetGear into Tulip compatibility more.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Stefan
>
>

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Randy Perry
rgp systems
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