Subject: Re: SMC NIC
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 20:56:13 AKST
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, james wrote:
> It is an obsolescent connector, an "AUI" port IIRC. As long as the RJ-45
> is working, you can ignore it. If the RJ-45 isn't working, look for a set
> of jumpers on the card not used for IRQ, I/O or memory address. Most of
> my ISA NICs have RJ-45, AUI and BNC connectors on them. While I've seen
> 10base2 cables and connectors, I've never seen the cable (10base5?) that
> goes with AUI ports unless the terminals at the UAF VAX node used them.
> (And back then I just cared about not missing the Empire update.)
Thicknet. Just tossed the last pieces of it from my "what am I going to do
with this?" pile at work...
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