[tech] Ethernet cards

[Grahame Bowland]

> On Feb 04, Nick Bannon scrawled :

> I believe the plan is for two to go into uccrouter and one into mermaid.
> There's a Linux driver in /services/tmp/fa31v402.tgz - a modified copy
> of tulip.c - but let's see if a recent mainstream tulip driver works. (we
> could need a new kernel on uccrouter)

The tulip.c from 2.2.13/14 definitely works fine.

> Any plans for this weekend on mermaid or scarlet? mermaid needs a
> reinstall, preferably onto Wazza's 4.3GB IDE HDD. scarlet might need a
> downgrade, but at the end of the day we just want it to be able to talk
> 100BaseT and server NFS and NIS.

I have to work Saturday now, so I can be in on Sunday to help or whatever.

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