Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:24:01 -0400 From: "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@cs.albany.edu> To: "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@cs.albany.edu> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 3COM 3C996-T supported via Alteon Driver? Message-ID: <200104242028.QAA07738@taurus.cs.albany.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "William A. Maniatty" <maniatty@cs.albany.edu> of "Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:19:06 EDT." <200104240123.VAA03859@taurus.cs.albany.edu>
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> Hello All: > > I'm in the process of configuring a cluster and noticed that 3COM > had recently purchased Alteon and was making a 3C996-T 10/100/1000 BaseT > cards. Can the Alteon Tigon drivers support this card? After a bit of poking around, and discussion with 3Com's tech support, they have confirmed that this card is NOT Alteon based. In fact, most of the current crop of 10/100/1000 BaseT cards are based on broadcom's recent chipset, (I'm not sure which chip, possibly the BMC5401 or the BMC5402). I don't think that there are FreeBSD drivers for these cards (due in some part to reasons discussed below). Other FreeBSD friendly vendors (I'm not sure if I'm allowed to give names here) have confirmed that they too are preparing cards with the same technology. I've heard rumors that the chip supplies are currently limited, so that card availability might be limited until late May. Regards: Bill -- |------------------------------------------| |Dr. William (Bill) A. Maniatty | |Assistant Professor | |Dept. of Computer Science | |University At Albany | |Albany, NY 12222 | |------------------------------------------| |Phone: (518) 442-4281 | |e-mail: maniatty@cs.albany.edu | |URL: http://www.cs.albany.edu/~maniatty| |------------------------------------------| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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