From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 24 12:54:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20278 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20264 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@[206.246.122.2]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id PAA11140; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:53:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA03319; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:53:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:54:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Dave Alderman cc: Michael Beckmann , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMC Etherpower II issues In-Reply-To: <33D76A6B.B7339D87@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > Michael Beckmann wrote: > > > > I was told, but have not been able to verify, that new PCI Ethernet cards > > from SMC "SMC EtherPower II 10/100" > > are no longer equipped with "Digital 21140" chips, but rather with > > EPIC/100 83c170 chips. > > > > This has some implications on the usability with FreeBSD, I guess. > > > The last ad I saw for the card showed an SMC part on the board. It was > definitely not a 21140 (unless they cloned it). I bought one 5 days ago and it still had the DEC chip in it. > -- > It's not my fault! It's some guy named "General Protection"! > --Ratbert > David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------