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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:32:39 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        threeLoopnine Design <lupa@3loop9.com>
Cc:        "Shyh-Donq Yu" <ysd@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>, "Doug White" <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>, "Support" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ethernet 
Message-ID:  <199606112332.QAA02716@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:57:17 PDT." <9606112251.AA15339@netoutfit.com> 

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>I have decided to add an ethernet card, to my PCI bus based Pentium. So I 
>can access a network that is hooked to the internet via a T3 line. 
>Looking through Jordan's picks it looks like he suggests the SMC 
>EtherPower Ethernet card, based on DEC's DC21041 controller chip. But in 
>the list of kernel line I can only find reference to DEC's DC21040 PCI 
>Ethernet adapter. Is this still the best PCI Ethernet adapter for 
>10baseT? Is one of these names in these lists a typo? Should I just use 
>the:"  device  de0  " command string?
>
>Anyone who can answer any of these questions I would appreciate a 
>response.

   The 21041 is not quite yet supported. I have an updated version of the "de"
driver from Matt Thomas here that is supposed to support it, but it has not
been brought into the CVS repository yet.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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