Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:06:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> Cc: "Mr G.D. Tyson" <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk>, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O/S Support for large [512Mb] PC systems Message-ID: <199806212006.NAA01083@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:11:13 %2B0200." <19980619191113.10952@antioche.lip6.fr>
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> On Jun 19, Mr G.D. Tyson wrote
> > [...]
> > ultra controller. We would probably use an Intel Express 10/100 Ethernet
> > adaptor (or two) as the network connection.
> >
>
> Beware, I'm not sure all Intel's boards are supported under NetBSD yet.
> I would recommend boards based on the DEC 21{0,1}14{0,1} or Texas Intruments'
> ThunderLAN chip (this last one is really fast, for a small amount of CPU use.
> It seems the de driver ises a bit more CPU).
NetBSD uses the Intel EtherExpress 100B 'fxp' driver written by David
Greenman for FreeBSD. For ethernet work on Intel systems, this is
about as good as you will get.
(see ftp.cdrom.com for a good example of what this is suitable for)
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