Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:02:36 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon <max@iclub.nsu.ru> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970730130745.4464A-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <199707290413.NAA10221@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > How about giving us a complete description of the problem, including > what (if anything) differs between the Linux and FreeBSD > configurations of the card. Linux uses PCNet32/PCNet PCI optimized driver (dword i/o operations), while FreeBSD uses Generic LANCE/PCNet driver (word i/o access mode) btw, is there anybody going to write PCNet32/PCNet PCI driver for FreeBSD? Linux (and Win95 ;) have no troubles with these network cards > For that matter, have you tried running Linux on this _particular_ > machine? yep. and it runs perfectly. the only reason to against installing Linux is that our main server is a FreeBSD box (YP password shadowing will not work with Linux clients) /max
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