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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:10:58 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? 
Message-ID:  <199807271310.GAA16516@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:26:10 -0000." <199807270826.BAA22455@usr08.primenet.com> 

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> > > You should talk to Doug Ambrisko about this.
> > 
> > I would hope he'll drop into the discussion.
> 
> Unfortunately, he has a life.  8-).

Our loss, I guess.

> > >  I believe there were also problems with the hardware
> > > autodetection, unlike the 82558 part.
> > 
> > Detection of the PCI parts is, not surprisingly, trivial.
> 
> Autodetection of the 100 vs. 10 rate, not autodetection of the device.

That's "autonegotiation", and it's supposed to happen in hardware.  This
 tends to contradict the claim that the AMD reference hardware works 
as-is...

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