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Subject: Re: PCI-based Network adaptors for FreeBSD 2.x
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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Date: 23 Nov 1996 12:34:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: Keith Jackson's message of Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:19:18 +0000
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>> On Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:19:18 +0000, Keith Jackson
>> <keith@lsuc.on.ca> said:

    KJ> Can you tell me which of the supported ethernet adaptors are
    KJ> PCI bus-based adaptors?  It looks as if the DEC PCI ethernet
    KJ> adaptors are the only ones.  Am I correct?

NE2000 compatibles should be supported, but for mine the probe
fails. For Linux someone sent me a patch that should improve the
probing of such beasts. I hope for FreeBSD the probing in
pci/if_ed_p (?) can be improved too.