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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:36:46 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "Bob Giesen" <BobGiesen@earthlink.net>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Linksys LNE10TX v4.1, FreeBSD v3.2
Message-ID:  <20020122223456.CBB0E48449@wastegate.net>
In-Reply-To: <001501c1a2e4$d975be20$328dfea9@pegasus>

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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:33:17 -0600, Bob Giesen wrote:

>   Well, I just tried it, and it didn't seem to do anything.  (Nothing in
>dmesg or ifconfig -a...)  I didn't see anything in /sys/pci that looked like
>it should be an option, either.  (I'm guessing I'd find an if_dc.c file, or
>something like that, along w/ an associated header file.)
>   I did another search on Google and found the dc(4) man page, which stated
>that that driver first appeared in FreeBSD in v4.0.  Does anyone know if it
>will work in 3.2 -- and, if it can (or even might), where I can find the
>driver's source (other than in a full-blown 4.x download), so that I might
>give it a try?

it could be under a different name- they changed a bunch of device
names from 3.x to 4.x.

the dc0 device in 4.5-rc supports a lot more cards:

# The `dc' device provides support for PCI fast ethernet adapters
# based on the DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes including:
# the ADMtek AL981 Comet and AN985 Centaur, the ASIX Electronics
# AX88140A and AX88141, the Davicom DM9100 and DM9102, the Lite-On
# 82c168 and 82c169 PNIC, the Lite-On/Macronix LC82C115 PNIC II
# and the Macronix 98713/98713A/98715/98715A/98725 PMAC. This driver
# replaces the old al, ax, dm, pn and mx drivers.  List of brands:
# Digital DE500-BA, Kingston KNE100TX, D-Link DFE-570TX, SOHOware
SFA110,
# SVEC PN102-TX, CNet Pro110B, 120A, and 120B, Compex RL100-TX,
# LinkSys LNE100TX, LNE100TX V2.0, Jaton XpressNet, Alfa Inc GFC2204,
# KNE110TX.

where as 3.x is listed as:


Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast ethernet NICs including the following:
  LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX
  NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1
  Matrox FastNIC 10/100

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