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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:11:34 +0100
From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Intel 82559 ethernet supported?
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On Wed, 24-Mar-1999 at 20:55:45 -0800, Castor Fu wrote:
> People have generally recommended the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B
> adapter, but it looks like a new version, the 
> "Intel PRO/100+ management adapter"  with the 82559 chip seems to be 
> rapidly replacing these.
> 
> It claims to be compatible at the driver level, but has anyone
> actually tested this under FreeBSD?  (There are reports of problems
> on netbsd, PR kern/7216)

Tried it yesterday on my machine (Asus P2B) and worked like the old
ones.  The only thing that bugs me is the additional boot delay caused
by the BIOS but this is, of course, no operating system issue.

	-Andre


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