[rescue] octane question

[Dave McGuire]

On January 20, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > Are you talking about that 100 MBit/s EISA Ehernet card from 3Com, that
> > can work in an SGI Indigo^2? The card that was OEMed by Phobos who
> > wrote IRIX driver for it? You are looking for Phobos EPROMs to get an
> > ordinary PeeCee 3Com working with the Phobos drivers? You don't need
> > that. All you need is the Phobos driver (downloadable from Phobos) and a
> > small patch. The driver looks for a Phobos MAC address. If it finds an
> > other it refuses to work. So you can negate two branch instructions in
> > the driver.o and the driver will work with any card, but not with a
> > Phobos. Hehehe. :-) I did that with a generic PeeCee 3Com and it works
> > well in my R4400 Indigo^2 with IRIX 6.5. 
> 
> They were talking about the EISA FDDI card from 3com.  If the same steps
> can be applied for that, well, that would be pretty cool.

  No, we were indeed talking about the 3Com EISA 100Mbps ethernet card.
I^2 FDDI boards aren't difficult to come by.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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