From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 30 01:04:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 367D616A405 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91B813C481 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:04:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f47so859881pye for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:04:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=K9qB6F28+9ThKxGA1rx3OhxGSLLeZJbOdnl9wzNPRL7lqzLk6pKUKTKoS853xoWkdFKPJa7vdSCggP8mnOe49QmwcQpC8516YjRJxdAMnQvOSQzbP8eEsiOWV+kk9sI9qmTDSHOh3cJNs0EVo+m14b9eurIU382XD+CXxVpOXVQ= Received: by 10.35.64.8 with SMTP id r8mr14031260pyk.1170117328270; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:35:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ( [211.53.35.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a70sm6868598pye.2007.01.29.16.35.25; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l0U0YLvI005341 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:34:21 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id l0U0YJM3005340; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:34:19 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:34:19 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: Johan Str?m Message-ID: <20070130003419.GA5092@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:04:44 -0000 On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to buy a PCI 1000-SX network card, looking on eBay I've > found both 3C996-SX and 3C985(b)-SX cards. > Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware- > i386.html#ETHERNET I can find "3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)", but > not the SX? > However, on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware- > i386.html#ETHERNET I can see "3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T". > So, has the -SX support been removed or something? > From the if_bge.c changelog (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ > src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c) I found this: > If my memory serve me right bge(4) supports 3Com 996SX. I think I've used the 996SX to make bge(4) work on sparc64. > Commit message by wpaul > > Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking > > the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media. > > We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified that > > they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber > > interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm > > keeping my fingers crossed.) > > But this is from 4 years ago so.. not pretty recent and no followup > in the log. > > So, is it supported or not? :) > > Also i found some 3c985(b) cards on eBay, a bit more expensive ($10 > or so..), but this uses the ti driver instead of bge. And from what I > can see this driver does not support ALTQ. However, im not quite sure I'm not sure Max Laier(mlaier@) already made a ALTQ patch for ti(4). If you can test ti(4) on your box I can write a ALTQ patch for ti(4). > i will need it anyway, since I will runt VLAN interface ontop of the > device (and both bge and ti supports vlan), and vlan does not support > altq anyway (which is kind of boring, any plans for it?) > > So, any suggestions? Which card should I choose? Or some other > popular card in the same price range (ebay price range that is..)? > > Thanks! > > Johan Str?m > Stromnet > johan@stromnet.se > http://www.stromnet.se/ -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon