Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:39:00 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Ken Smith <ken@smith.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com Megahertz 10/100 PCMCIA Message-ID: <20001117133900.C88120@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20001117110151.A433@turbolinux.co.jp>; from ken@smith.net on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:01:51AM %2B0900 References: <20001117110151.A433@turbolinux.co.jp>
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Thus spake Ken Smith (ken@smith.net): > I noticed that the supported hardware document does not list support for > the 3Com Megahertz 10/100 ethernet card. The model number for this card > is 3CXFE575CT (or ...BT for the dongle version.) Is anyone planning to > support this PCMCIA ethernet adapter? I have also read that OpenBSD 2.7 > does support this adapter. Are OpenBSD and FreeBSD different enough > that porting the driver would be difficult? The model you refer to above is a cardbus card. There's preliminary support for some cardbus cards in -current, including this one. The driver isn't ready for -stable yet. > I looked for a mail archive for this list but couldn't find one. If > there's one out there, please let me know so I can verify that my > questions have not already been answered before posting again. Also,I'm > not currently subscribed to this mailing list, so please cc: me when > responding. Archives and other information is at http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list > While I'm at it, can anyone give me a good argument for choosing > [Open|Free|Net]BSD over any of the others? I've never used any of them > but from my installation attempts Free goes down a easier than Open. > However, the security saaviness of the Open guys is attractive. FreeBSD is optimized for i386 CPUs. FreeBSD supports SMP (which will get a whole lot better in 5.0). FreeBSD's security is pretty good, too; it's just not bandied about quite so much :-) I'd suggest you run with FreeBSD for x86/Alpha; look at Open/NetBSD for SPARC etc. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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