From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 10 02:04:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26648 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Vorlon.odc.net (Vorlon.odc.net [207.137.42.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26643; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:04:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net) Received: from localhost (nwestfal@localhost) by Vorlon.odc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA28628; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:02:55 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Neal Westfall To: Mike Smith cc: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Netgear ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <199901100539.VAA03464@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org And if I recall that particular card is supported by the if_pn.c driver. The older Netgear cards had the DEC chip, which can still be found here and there, but *any* cards using DEC chip are dissappearing rapidly.. -- Neal Westfall mailto:nwestfal@odc.net http://www.odc.net/~nwestfal/ FreeBSD: The Power To Serve! http://www.freebsd.org/ $Id: dot.signature,v 1.2 1998/12/30 08:23:13 nwestfal Exp nwestfal $ On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Does anyone know if the Netgear series of ethernet cards (PCI, 10/100Mb/s) > > is supported by the current bunch of drivers? I had a look at the > > card and couldn't see any familiar names silk-screened on the chips, > > with main chip having NetGear splattered all over it. > > Yes; as Bill recently posted, we now have support either in the tree or > available as addons from Bill's page (www.freebsd.org/~wpaul) for > prettymuch all of the 100Mbps chipsets. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message