Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:00:02 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hardware Users) Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ??? Message-ID: <199611201100.MAA10363@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199611140802.AAA21387@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 14, 96 00:02:52 am"
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: >>> I am not only willing to hand carry them over to David, I will pay him >>> some reasonable fee to work on and fix the driver to support both the new >>> versions of the cards from SMC (SMC9332BDT) and the D-Link DFE-500TX. >>> >>> If David does not have the time, that offer extends to Matt Thomas >>> as well. (Except I'll have to FedX the cards to him :-)). >>> >>> The balls now in your court, I have made the offer of putting the hardware >>> and money in your hands to get some of this fixed.... >> >> And it's appreciated - I'll talk to David about this when I see him in >> Las Vegas on monday. Unfortunately, we're both going to be stuck at >> COMDEX manning the FreeBSD booth for all of next week, so don't be >> surprised if you don't hear anything back immediately. We're both >> going to be out of action for at least 10 days as a result of this >> miserable ordeal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwonderful conference. > > :-) > > Already taken care of, David now has a DFE-500TX rev C1, Kingston KNE100TX > and a Compex ENET100TX-PCI. Of these a quick look at things shows that > the DFE and KNE cards are using the same chips and shouldn't be too bad > to fix, the Compex is a tossed in thing I had laying around, and I don't > really care if it gets fixed or not. > > Lets give David a few days to see what he comes up with... Is anybody working on the 3C900? Like the original poster, I've been lumbered with a couple of these boards, supposedly "compatible with the 3C595". If not, can anybody give me some pointers, and I'll have a go at it myself. Greg
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