From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 20:17:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA05325 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA05292 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00414; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Robert Clark cc: "'freebsd-questions'" , " Robert Clark via Pii.com" Subject: Re: Network Card Choices. In-Reply-To: <3242DFEB@smtp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Robert Clark wrote: > > > I'm going to be building a new system to run 2.1.0 (CD release), (and > upgrade to 2.1.5 over the wire after I figure out how to do it.) > > I need help choosing a network card to run. Here are my choices, please > comment if you can. > > (To run with 2.1.0) > > Western Digital, model unknown, chipset - WD83C690-JT (ISA-16bit) > (1990) Should work. > SMC, model unknown, chipset - 83C690LJ (ISA-16bit) (1991) > SMC, model unknown, chipset - 83C790QF (ISA-16bit) (1993) May work. I don't know about the SMCs. > Unknown brand, PCnet - PCI (AMD), chipset - AM79C970KC Supported, but requires some hackery (ex: boot -v, grab the i/o address, feed it to the le0 driver). See the questions archives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major