From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 10: 6: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A51C14D7D for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA43586; Fri, 14 May 1999 19:05:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Kris Kirby Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MB86950 Support in the works? References: <373B297A.97302414@airnet.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 May 1999 19:05:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: Kris Kirby's message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 14:35:22 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kirby writes: > I was wondering if any adventurous individual has looked into writing a > driver for the MB86950 ethernet controller. I have quite a few cards > that use this chip and would be more than willing to acid-test the > driver. (Ever got 1MB/s over coax? :-)) Yes, I've experienced sustained transfer rates in excess of 1 MBps on a 10Base2 network, with FreeBSD 3.1 using an SMC based Kingston EtherX (ISA PnP NE2000 clone thingamabob) in one end and a nondescript Linux box in the other end. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message