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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 08:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>
To:        Hile Tuohela <hile@iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for SMC EtherPower II ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508080404.7815A-100000@mariner.cris.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980508133721.17260D-100000@pneuma.cs.Helsinki.FI>

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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ilkka Tuohela wrote:

I am a little biased here as I am fortunate enough (THIS time) to able to
build an entire computer from the ground up around FreeBSD, please bear
with me here.

> I would like to try FreeBSD, but I didn't find support for my
> second network controller. Is there somewhere a driver, that
> card is based on SMC 83c170 chip, it has nothing to do with
> EtherPower cards based on DEC tulip chip.

> I don't need that card for installing base system, but it really
> isn't worth the effort if I can't find a driver later, in normal
> use I need both cards.

You are going to allow the incompatibility of a single ethernet controller
to stop you from implementing FreeBSD?  This must be one SPECIAL card...

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