Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:46:48 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: spchiou@dns.vit.edu.tw, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about 100mb ethernet card. Message-ID: <199702271946.UAA00918@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970227104522.9506E-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Feb 27, 97 10:46:12 am
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> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, spchiou wrote: > > > My o.s. is FreeBSD v2.1.5 . > > Now i have a question. > > Does this version support accton 1207tx fast ethernet card and > > it have any solution? > > Accton's PCI cards use the DEC chipsets, so this has a pretty decent > chance of working, depending on how new a chipset they used. The > DEC-based Ethernet chips (the 21140 series at least) are changing and > FreeBSD hasn't been updated to deal with them yet. the differences are minor though and the netbsd driver has a good chance of working -- it does for me modulo some minor problems (probably fixed by now) with back-to-back packets. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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