[rescue] octane question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 01:22:05PM +0100, jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de 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.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd