Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> Cc: "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, " Robert Clark via Pii.com" <robert.clark@mailhost.PII.COM> Subject: Re: Network Card Choices. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920201618.349M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3242DFEB@smtp>
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Robert Clark wrote: > > > I'm going to be building a new system to run 2.1.0 (CD release), (and > upgrade to 2.1.5 over the wire after I figure out how to do it.) > > I need help choosing a network card to run. Here are my choices, please > comment if you can. > > (To run with 2.1.0) > > Western Digital, model unknown, chipset - WD83C690-JT (ISA-16bit) > (1990) Should work. > SMC, model unknown, chipset - 83C690LJ (ISA-16bit) (1991) > SMC, model unknown, chipset - 83C790QF (ISA-16bit) (1993) May work. I don't know about the SMCs. > Unknown brand, PCnet - PCI (AMD), chipset - AM79C970KC Supported, but requires some hackery (ex: boot -v, grab the i/o address, feed it to the le0 driver). See the questions archives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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