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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:46:48 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        spchiou@dns.vit.edu.tw, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: about 100mb ethernet card.
Message-ID:  <199702271946.UAA00918@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970227104522.9506E-100000@localhost> from "Doug White" at Feb 27, 97 10:46:12 am

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> On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, spchiou wrote:
> 
> > My o.s. is FreeBSD v2.1.5 .
> > Now i have a question.
> > Does this version support accton 1207tx fast ethernet card and
> > it have any solution?
> 
> Accton's PCI cards use the DEC chipsets, so this has a pretty decent
> chance of working, depending on how new a chipset they used.  The
> DEC-based Ethernet chips (the 21140 series at least) are changing and
> FreeBSD hasn't been updated to deal with them yet.  

the differences are minor though and the netbsd driver has a good
chance of working -- it does for me modulo some minor problems
(probably fixed by now) with back-to-back packets.

	Luigi
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