RE: [suse-sparc] Sunpci under Suse-SparcLinux 7.3

From: Andrew hooper (andrew.hooper_at_dsl.pipex.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 18:51:17 CET


From: "Andrew hooper" <andrew.hooper@dsl.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:51:17 -0000
Message-ID: <LDEAJPPFEAEDENODBCPJCEJOCAAA.andrew.hooper@dsl.pipex.com>
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Sunpci under Suse-SparcLinux 7.3

OK I stand corrected. This could easily be a re-badged product, if the
original manufacture could be discovered, than its possible that some one
has got Linux running on it or got it to interoperate on a Linux based PC.

Andrew Hooper
http://www.andrew.hooper.dsl.pipex.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Uziel [mailto:uzi@gimp.org]On Behalf Of Joshua Uziel
Sent: 12 March 2003 12:25
To: Andrew hooper
Cc: Rapley, Andrew P (Andrew); Suse-Sparc
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sunpci under Suse-SparcLinux 7.3

* Andrew hooper <andrew.hooper@dsl.pipex.com> [030312 03:47]:
> When you say Sunpci do you mean a run of the mill of the shelf PCI card
like
> a NIC for instance.
> I have fitted a couple of Intel FastEthernet 10/100 PCI cards into ultra
5s
> all I had to do was load the module with insmod e100, then configure the
new
> interface as normal.
> It was no different to installing a card in a PC with Linux.

Actually, what he meant was the "SunPCi" family of cards. See:

    http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/sunpci/

That'll explain all.

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