Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:34:19 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Johan Str?m <johan@stromnet.se> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX? Message-ID: <20070130003419.GA5092@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se> References: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se>
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to buy a PCI 1000-SX network card, looking on eBay I've > found both 3C996-SX and 3C985(b)-SX cards. > Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware- > i386.html#ETHERNET I can find "3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)", but > not the SX? > However, on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware- > i386.html#ETHERNET I can see "3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T". > So, has the -SX support been removed or something? > From the if_bge.c changelog (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ > src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c) I found this: > If my memory serve me right bge(4) supports 3Com 996SX. I think I've used the 996SX to make bge(4) work on sparc64. > Commit message by wpaul > > Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking > > the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media. > > We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified that > > they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber > > interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm > > keeping my fingers crossed.) > > But this is from 4 years ago so.. not pretty recent and no followup > in the log. > > So, is it supported or not? :) > > Also i found some 3c985(b) cards on eBay, a bit more expensive ($10 > or so..), but this uses the ti driver instead of bge. And from what I > can see this driver does not support ALTQ. However, im not quite sure I'm not sure Max Laier(mlaier@) already made a ALTQ patch for ti(4). If you can test ti(4) on your box I can write a ALTQ patch for ti(4). > i will need it anyway, since I will runt VLAN interface ontop of the > device (and both bge and ti supports vlan), and vlan does not support > altq anyway (which is kind of boring, any plans for it?) > > So, any suggestions? Which card should I choose? Or some other > popular card in the same price range (ebay price range that is..)? > > Thanks! > > Johan Str?m > Stromnet > johan@stromnet.se > http://www.stromnet.se/ -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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