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To: Scott Banachowski <scottb@unix.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress support? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:29:12 -0700
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>I haven't had any luck getting freebsd to recognize an Intel
>EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI card at /dev/ix0 (the supposed driver for this
>card).  It does find the card when probing the PCI bus, but prints a
>message along with it that says: no driver loaded.
>Is the PCI version of this card not supported, 
>or am I doing something wrong?

   The ix driver is NOT for the Pro/100 card. We currently don't have a driver
for the Pro/100 (based on the 82556 chip). I wrote a driver for the Pro/100B
(based on the 82557 chip), however, and it's available in 2.1-stable and
-current source trees.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project