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Post #1 by commodorejohn
Source ForumNuBus and drivers...? — #1
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 20 May 2013 - 17:08
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/nubus-and-drivers.28117/
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So I'm putting together a Quadra 840AV basically out of parts (got a motherboard + RAM en route, need to find a housing for it.) But I'm trying to expand it a little, too; specifically, I plan on getting a NIC, since NuBus Ethernet cards go for about as much as AAUI-to-RJ45 adapters or less. But I've never owned a NuBus Mac (well, aside from the IIcx we had back when, which I never worked in,) so I'm not sure to what extent drivers are a requirement. (I gather that video cards had some kind of standard ROM that the OS could use to determine capabilities, for example.) Am I going to need to dig up a driver for the card I buy? Is there an archive of drivers out there somewhere?

For the record, the cards I'm looking at:

Asante MCNB

Cabletron E6119-X

Farallon EtherMac

Techworks

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