Hi,

I was already looking at the heat problem.  Hardware wise I have been
looking at stuff aimed at cooling laptops....fans to go underneath and I
believe you can get others that fit into the pcmcia slot?  Might as well
expand my question....anyone had any experience with such kit?  Did it
help...i.e. anyone leave these things running 24x7?

....as to Ethernet, I'd be interested to find out...I could live with
10baseT...any news on that front would be gr8.

Steve

>> I have a Sparcbook 3GX running NetBSD 1.5.  At the moment it's not
>> doing much (other than gathering dust), but I'd really love to use it
>> as a router/firewall/proxy/dnsserver if at all possible.  To do that,
>> I need to throw a network card in one of it's pcmcia slots.  Are there
>> NetBSD drivers for 100BaseT network cards?
>
>
> I wouldn't do this, if I were you.  Those 3GXs do not like to be left
> on all the time.  I loved mine, and it cooked itself to death.  Do a
> quick search -- you'll find lots of 'net lore about these things and
> their overheating problems.
>
> That's not even to comment on the viability of 100BaseT network
> drivers, which I'll let others on this list comment on.
>
> I'd buy a Sparc 5 on Ebay for $75 or so, if I were looking for a
> router...
>
> -David.


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