[Andy Valencia <vandys@zendo.com>]
> ["Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@ebt.com> writes:]
>
> I'll need to have a 7/24 VSTa server running to permit this, but that
> doesn't seem like a big deal. Another key piece is the need for our lousy
> networking card coverage (still just NE2000) to improve. I foresee ISA
> slots becoming a novelty in the very near future.
PCI NE2K is pretty simple to do and the cards (while cheesy) are
readily available for $10-12 or so.
Here's a code snippet that scans through PCI space (works with VIA and
Intel chipsets, probably some others) for NE2K's that I use for a
netboot rom:
http://www.openblt.org/blt/netboot/pci.c
Brian
-- Brian J. Swetland | "If I have hacked deeper than them, it is because swetland@frotz.net | I stand in their trenches." -- Graham NelsonReceived on Thu Sep 21 16:16:52 2000
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