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- Lines: 21
- Date:
Mon May 6 12:26:01 1996
- Orig file:
v1.3.98/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
- Orig date:
Fri Apr 12 15:51:44 1996
diff -u --recursive --new-file v1.3.98/linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt linux/Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
5. An active hub to passive hub.
Remember, that you can not connect two passive hubs together. The power loss
-implied by such connection is too high for the net to operate reliably.
+implied by such a connection is too high for the net to operate reliably.
An example of a typical ARCnet network:
@@ -2256,9 +2256,9 @@
function, and the 8th switch is used to select "compatible" or "enhanced".
When I got my two cards, one of them had this switch set to "enhanced". That
card didn't work at all, it wasn't even recognized by the driver. The other
-card had this switch set to "compatible" and it behaved absolutely normal. I
+card had this switch set to "compatible" and it behaved absolutely normally. I
guess that the switch on one of the cards, must have been changed accidently
-when the card was taken out of it's former host. The question remains
+when the card was taken out of its former host. The question remains
unanswered, what is the purpose of the "enhanced" position?
[Avery's note: "enhanced" probably either disables shared memory (use IO
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