From: Andrew Boyd (aboyd@quantum.on.ca)
Date: 08/28/92


From: aboyd@quantum.on.ca (Andrew Boyd)
Subject: Re: Ethernet drivers
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:31:34 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.114807.7765@athena.mit.edu> cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
(Craig Metz) talks about how it would be nice to support the 3com503 and
3com 505:

Actually, the 503 is very similar to the wd (now smc) 8003 series of
cards - both use the 8390 NIC. If you folks already have a driver for
the 8003, you won't find it too big a job to support the 503 - just
different locate and init code. The runtime code is identical.

The 505 is quite different, though - it has a 186 cpu on board, and a
totally different interface than the 503.