Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:58:38 -0700 From: Dan Yergeau <yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetGear FA310TX rev D2 Message-ID: <200007171558.IAA04636@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:16:16 EST." <20000714151616.K4162@bsd.planetwe.com>
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>Does anyone know if either the NetGear FA310TX rev D2 or the Kingston >KNE40BT network cards are supported by FreeBSD? I have one of each >in a -stable box built today and neither seem to be recognized acording >to dmesg. I figured at least the second one would have been recognized >by the de driver since it has a DEC 21041 chip on it. Assuming that the FA310TX rev D2 still has a 82c169 PNIC, it should be recognized with the "dc" driver (4.x and 5.x branches; use the "pn" driver on 3.x [x >= 3]). NIC vendors have a bad habit of changing chipsets with changing the card model or revision. I'm not overly impressed with the support for the 82c169 under FreeBSD. The chip/driver combination seems prone to transmit underruns, leading to poor performance. The dc driver supposedly has code to detect the underruns and dynamically change the transmit threshold or even switch to store-and-forward mode, but that didn't work well for me with a KNE100TX (also a 82c169). See http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2114161+2116413+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000109.freebsd-questions for more information on transmit underrun problems with the pn driver. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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