From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:18:01 -0600
From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Frequently Asked
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>no, that's an errata for the 3c59x cards. the important erratum for the
>3c905 concerns it hanging if you do busmaster receives at 10Mb.

I'm using 10Mb.  humm...

>you do not need to set anything in the pci config space for the 3c905,
>the card and bios should have set it correctly (they do on every system
>i've tried).

Good to know.

>if there's interest and a volunteer i can give them the current brazil
>driver provided they promise to give back a plan9 version for inclusion
>in the website updates. it will be a bit of work:
>    % ls -l /sys/lib/pcdist/src/9/pc/ether509.c /sys/src/brazil/pc/etherelnk3.c
>    --rw-rw-r-- M 4 jmk sys 16762 Feb 27  1996 /sys/lib/pcdist/src/9/pc/ether509.c
>    --rw-rw-r-- M 4 jmk sys 41136 Dec  7 00:22 /sys/src/brazil/pc/etherelnk3.c
>    % 

I'm game!  My first priority is the fileserver kernel, but the
cpu/terminal kernel will be close behind...

David