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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:53:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: D-LINK DFE-570tx (was Re: multiport ethernet card)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101150050420.519-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010111103801.A52156@setzer.chocobo.cx>

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For the record, updating my -CURRENT sources from the month-old version to
the, umm, current version made FreeBSD recognize the card, and when I
moved it to a 4.2-STABLE box, that was recognized as well.  In both cases,
the card came up as dc0 - dc3.

Thanks for the responses!

Ken

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Chip Marshall wrote:

> On January 10, 2001, Ken Bolingbroke sent me the following:
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jon Rust wrote:
> > > DLink makes a 4 port 10/100 card. Works very well. I've got 2 of
> > > them in a FreeBSD box now that I use as an interoffice router. About
> > > to add a 3rd...
> >
> > Not to blame Jon or anything :-), but based on this precise
> > recommendation, I got this card, the D-Link DFE-570tx. However, I've
> > not had any luck getting it recognized under 5.0-CURRENT (I intend to
> > use it under 4.2-STABLE, but first I'm testing it under -CURRENT).
> 
> I've got two of the DFE cards in a couple of FreeBSD boxes I use as
> routers, and the both have been working fine for about a year. The
> cards were working fine in the 3.x branch, and are working in 4.x.
> For me they just show up as 4 de devices. I know someone else who was
> running -CURRENT that was having problems with them, but that was a
> while ago.



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