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From: RON@psuvm.psu.edu (Ron McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Lance (ethernet) driver
Message-ID: <91162.122856RON@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 16:28:56 GMT
References: <3133@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
Organization: Penn State - Erie
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In article <3133@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, zawada@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Simpson) says:
>
>Has anbody written an ethernet driver for PC-AT Minix, based
>around the lance chip?
>
>The lance chip is at the heart of a BICC PC-AT ethernet board,
>I'm trying to network with.
>


The Lance chip is also at the heart of the DEC DEMCA ethernet card which is
used to connect PS2s to an ethernet. I have received the literature on the
Lance chip (it is made by Advanced Micro Devices), and hope to convert
the Minix ethernet driver this summer when I get to it.

Ron McCarty