Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:00:06 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.se> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: wpaul@freebsd.org Subject: Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX? Message-ID: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se>
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Hi I'm about to buy a PCI 1000-SX network card, looking on eBay I've =20 found both 3C996-SX and 3C985(b)-SX cards. Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware-=20 i386.html#ETHERNET I can find "3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)", but =20= not the SX? However, on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-=20 i386.html#ETHERNET I can see "3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T". So, has the -SX support been removed or something? =46rom the if_bge.c changelog (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/=20= src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c) I found this: Commit message by wpaul > Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking > the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media. > We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified that > they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber > interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm > keeping my fingers crossed.) But this is from 4 years ago so.. not pretty recent and no followup =20 in the log. So, is it supported or not? :) Also i found some 3c985(b) cards on eBay, a bit more expensive ($10 =20 or so..), but this uses the ti driver instead of bge. And from what I =20= can see this driver does not support ALTQ. However, im not quite sure =20= i will need it anyway, since I will runt VLAN interface ontop of the =20 device (and both bge and ti supports vlan), and vlan does not support =20= altq anyway (which is kind of boring, any plans for it?) So, any suggestions? Which card should I choose? Or some other =20 popular card in the same price range (ebay price range that is..)? Thanks! Johan Str=F6m Stromnet johan@stromnet.se http://www.stromnet.se/
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