From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 2:55:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.ldn.wdr.com (gate.ldn.wdr.com [193.82.179.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE47314BD2 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Clem.Dye@wdr.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gate.ldn.wdr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21830; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:55:36 +0100 (BST) From: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Received: from inside(192.168.0.1) by gate via smap (V2.0) id xma021696; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:55:04 +0100 Received: from ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com [172.16.234.32]) by ln4p1013pos.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27297; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:55:01 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by ln4p1129.ldn.swissbank.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6/WDR alpha evision: 1.7 $) with SMTP id KAA24548; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:55:01 +0100 (BST) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:54:53 +0100 Message-Id: Subject: RE: RE: Re: NetGear FA310-TX??? MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dburr@pobox.com, Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: clark@pharlap.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="BDY.TXT" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Processed-By: BrianWare hpomsmf V2.3.40, 19 May 1999 X-WDR-Disclaimer: Version $Revision: 1.13 $ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald: Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in a direct email to Clark, this whole business has set me thinking a bit. It seems that the DEC 21xxx chipset is fairly well supported by most o/ses: Microsoft, FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS etc. and from my point of view, being able to standardise on one type of card in a multi-boot system environment seems pretty sensible. The problem is how do you identify which NICs have the DEC chipset and which are still available here (in the UK). The chip change on the FA310 is a case in point: I didn't know that the Rev. C card uses the DEC chipset, whilst the Rev. D doesn't. Phoning a UK supplier to ask such a question will usually be met with the 'Dunno, mate' response, so typical of the service industry in general. With that in mind, any ideas? Regards Clem PS: Clark: Apologies for the message re-hash. Isn't cut'n'paste wonderful? Heh. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message