kern/102217: no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter

Joerg Wunsch j at uriah.heep.sax.de
Sat Sep 16 12:41:28 PDT 2006


As Juergen Lock wrote:

> ...  The driver seemed to work with the J2585B card, talking to the
> 100VG hub, but it still exhibited a strange problem that the DOS and
> linux drivers I looked at didnt seem to have (for which Joerg had
> already found a workaround tho), and, unlike the linux driver, it
> didnt do DMA.

I probably don't have any of that hardware anymore at all.  The EISA
stuff that could actually talk VGanyLAN at all is long since gone,
maybe the PCI card is still in a cabinet but it could only talk
Ethernet anyway.

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