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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 06:36:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>
Cc:        Hile Tuohela <hile@iki.fi>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Support for SMC EtherPower II ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508063616.26090E-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508080404.7815A-100000@mariner.cris.com>

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	This card is supported by the tx0 driver AFAIK.

-- Yan

Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve  |   to go home in the dark."
                        Linux == DOS of the Unix world.

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote:

>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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