From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 19:37:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA17687 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA17681 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id TAA24431 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:37:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id DAA28770; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 03:30:59 +0100 (BST) To: threeLoopnine Design cc: Shyh-Donq Yu , Doug White , Support From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Ethernet In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:57:17 PDT." <9606112251.AA15339@netoutfit.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 03:30:58 +0100 Message-ID: <28768.834546658@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk threeLoopnine Design wrote in message ID <9606112251.AA15339@netoutfit.com>: > I have decided to add an ethernet card, to my PCI bus based Pentium. So I > can access a network that is hooked to the internet via a T3 line. > Looking through Jordan's picks it looks like he suggests the SMC > EtherPower Ethernet card, based on DEC's DC21041 controller chip. But in > the list of kernel line I can only find reference to DEC's DC21040 PCI > Ethernet adapter. Is this still the best PCI Ethernet adapter for > 10baseT? Is one of these names in these lists a typo? Should I just use > the:" device de0 " command string? >From my own machine: de0 Unknown Digital DC21041 Ethernet ^^^ ^^^^^^^ Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info