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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 23:54:25 +0200
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Dave Alderman <dave@persprog.com>
From: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.net>
Subject: Re: SMC Etherpower II issues
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At 15:54 Uhr -0400 24.07.1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
>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.

I guess this was an SMC EtherPower, and not an SMC EtherPower II ?

Michael