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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I returned the two winbond-840 pci cards and got two others.
One is a Netgear FA311 which is supported in linux and takes the natsemi 
driver.  (I have not checked whether SW71 provides this as a module).

The other has a big MPX chip which is not the maker.  I searched on the 
FCC number to no avail.  Found 143127-411 drivers at driverguide for DOS 
and Win98 and it says this is an SMC card.  The linux online howto says 
SMC bought out other companies and various of its cards use wd, smc-ultra, 
tulip, or rtl8139, but this card was not listed at all.

I have run out of possibilities for pci cards.  If I cannot get either of 
these to work I will have to renege on my promise to send the two pci 
BNC/RJ45 to a list member.  Does anyone have a pci RJ45 card with SW71 
driver that they don't want?  (Or would the list member who would like my 
BNC cards want to give a try at compiling the winbond-840 module?  Do you 
really need the entire kernel source code in order to compile modules, or 
just the headers?)  It would be nice to get this project finished so that 
I can switch over to my two new computers, now that we fixed the hardware 
problems with the other one (for some reason the 360K B: drive was 
disabled by default, and the CD-ROM cable was not plugged in all the way).