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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Considering that obsolete hardware is now on average
> > maybe five years newer than when BL1 came out, it
> > would be helpful if at least rtl8139 could replace
> > one of the more obsolete ethernet modules.
>
> On BL1?  Sorry, I am no longer upgrading BL1.
> Or BL2 for that matter.
>
> > I personally have never run across a single ewrk3
> > eeepro wd,or smc-ultra
>
> Personally, I own one eepro, one smc-ultra and four
> wd network cards.
>
> > could one or more of these be replaced by rtl8139
> > in the next BL?
>
> Nothing to replace.  None of the above are in BL3.

Here I thought I had deleted them!  You are right, just 8390/ne and 
ne2kpci - both of which I have actually even used.  Not even 3c509, which 
is under 5K (smaller than the others) and seems to be relatively common.
So I will stick to using BL2 for setting up new computers, with a 3COM 
card.

> Cheers,
> Steven