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To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:50:29 -0700
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>
>  From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
>  Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? 
>
>  It will require twice the CPU, and in some extreme cases, this might be
>  enough to cause it to drop a packet. ...but normally it will work fine.
>
>Yeah, I just looked at the driver and saw the programmed IO cruft in there
>to deal with the novell cards.  Bummer.  Someone mentioned that some of the
>cards really do have shared memory and can run just like the SMC and 3COM.
>Do you know anything about this?

   I seem to recall the the NE2100's have this ability, but there isn't
support for it in the driver. I don't have any programming information for
it and haven't had the time or interest in trying to acquire it. ...but the
NE2000 doesn't have shared memory support; only programmed I/O.

-DG