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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: PD Software for 3270 PC Ethernet Card
Message-ID: <18419@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 90 23:14:15 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.175152.21405@cs.city.ac.uk> <7260005@hpfcso.HP.COM>
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In article <7260005@hpfcso.HP.COM> j_rodin@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jon Rodin) writes:
>>
>>    We have acquired an IBM generic ethernet-type card from an old 3270 PC.
>>    Does anyone know of a software driver for these cards?
>>    
>>This is likely to be the "IBM Baseband Adapter", which is an OEM version
>>of the U-B PC/NIC
>
>The original IBM PC LAN card was a baseband adapter OEM'ed from Sytek, now
>Hughes.  The only API available for the card (withouth programming directly
>to hardware) is NetBIOS which is in ROM on the card.
>

If you contact Hughes Lan Systems (was Sytek), they publish an NDIS MAC
driver for ye 'ol Sytek baseband card...it'll allow NDIS compatable transport
drivers to run on it.

-- 
 John Robert Breeden, 
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