From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jun 21 14:16:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00868 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00862 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01083; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806212006.NAA01083@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Manuel Bouyer cc: "Mr G.D. Tyson" , port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O/S Support for large [512Mb] PC systems In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:11:13 +0200." <19980619191113.10952@antioche.lip6.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:06:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message