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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???
In-Reply-To: <199611221456.RAA23985@megillah.demos.su> from "Mikhail A. Sokolov" at "Nov 22, 96 05:56:56 pm"
To: mishania@demos.su
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:03:48 +0100 (MET)
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Mikhail A. Sokolov wrote:
> > Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> > > Questions:  
> > > 	What PCI Ethernet card is solid and has good support under FBSD?
> > > 	Is it possible to get this 3C900 card working under 2.1.5 ?
> There doesn't exist  _good_ driver in 2.1.5r, 2.1.6r for 3c590/595, but there
> is _good_ and even working driver in -current tree/2.2-ALPHA tree.
> 

Not true. The one in 2.1.6 is the same as the on in -current. The one in
2.1.5 is indeed broken. Therefor I mentioned where to find a replacement,,

-Guido