Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:39:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: vernick@CS.SunySB.EDU (Michael Vernick) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 100 Mbs Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <199505012239.PAA12996@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505012010.QAA10859@cs.sunysb.edu> from "Michael Vernick" at May 1, 95 04:10:32 pm
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> > I want to set up a cluster of PC's using 100 Mbs Ethernet. It seems > that there is only 1 driver written so far for FreeBSD, for the > DEC DE500-XA card. However, DEC tells me that the card is not > yet available; the driver was written by someone at DEC. Is > anyone else working on a driver for an available 100Mbs Ethernet card? I am now stocking and have completed my testing of the SMC 9332 card which is a DEC 21140 based 10/100MBS card. I sell them for $212.00 each. It is functionaly equivelent to the DEC DE500-XA card at a lower cost. Note these are 100-BASE-TX cards, so make sure your hubs/ switches are 100BASETX compliant (Grand Junction is the only one I know of currently shipping these types of hubs, though SMC will have something out in a few months.) > I am not too familiar with writing drivers so I have a naive > question. There are several drivers for these cards for Linux. Does > anyone have a feel for how hard it is to port an Ethernet driver from > Linux to FreeBSD? Never having looked at the Linux ethernet driver interface I could not say :-(. > Thanks as always, > Michael Vernick -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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