From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 18:39:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4D37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAH2d0u05612; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:00 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:00 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Ken Smith Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com Megahertz 10/100 PCMCIA Message-ID: <20001117133900.C88120@albury.net.au> References: <20001117110151.A433@turbolinux.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001117110151.A433@turbolinux.co.jp>; from ken@smith.net on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:01:51AM +0900 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Ken Smith (ken@smith.net): > I noticed that the supported hardware document does not list support for > the 3Com Megahertz 10/100 ethernet card. The model number for this card > is 3CXFE575CT (or ...BT for the dongle version.) Is anyone planning to > support this PCMCIA ethernet adapter? I have also read that OpenBSD 2.7 > does support this adapter. Are OpenBSD and FreeBSD different enough > that porting the driver would be difficult? The model you refer to above is a cardbus card. There's preliminary support for some cardbus cards in -current, including this one. The driver isn't ready for -stable yet. > I looked for a mail archive for this list but couldn't find one. If > there's one out there, please let me know so I can verify that my > questions have not already been answered before posting again. Also,I'm > not currently subscribed to this mailing list, so please cc: me when > responding. Archives and other information is at http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list > While I'm at it, can anyone give me a good argument for choosing > [Open|Free|Net]BSD over any of the others? I've never used any of them > but from my installation attempts Free goes down a easier than Open. > However, the security saaviness of the Open guys is attractive. FreeBSD is optimized for i386 CPUs. FreeBSD supports SMP (which will get a whole lot better in 5.0). FreeBSD's security is pretty good, too; it's just not bandied about quite so much :-) I'd suggest you run with FreeBSD for x86/Alpha; look at Open/NetBSD for SPARC etc. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message