Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 11:51:04 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: John Clark <jrclark@felix.iupui.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMC EtherPower 10/100 (PCI) -- NOT Message-ID: <9605201551.AA22314@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960520095908.002e9324@felix.iupui.edu> References: <2.2.32.19960520095908.002e9324@felix.iupui.edu>
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<<On Mon, 20 May 1996 09:54:09 -0500, John Clark <jrclark@felix.iupui.edu> said: > I see "Jordan's Picks" include the SMC EtherPower 10/100 (PCI). Sounds like > a great card, however, I do NOT see it listed in the 2.1-RELEASE kernel > config file, or is it hiding as a DEC board? Yes. The NIC on this board is a DC21140 Fast Ethernet chip. We have a few of the 10-Mbit (21040 or 21041) cards from SMC, but all of our Fast Ethernet stuff is DE500-XA or Intel EE Pro/100B. We have found that the DEC chip performs much better in our tests than the i82557 on the Intel boards, but this may be the fault of our (Intel-made) motherboards or a result of insufficient driver tuning. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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