From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 24 15:14:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27742 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA27737 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@[206.246.122.2]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id SAA05996; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:14:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA09158; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:14:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:14:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Michael Beckmann cc: Dave Alderman , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMC Etherpower II issues In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote: > At 15:54 Uhr -0400 24.07.1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > >On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > > > >> Michael Beckmann wrote: > >> > > >> > I was told, but have not been able to verify, that new PCI Ethernet cards > >> > from SMC "SMC EtherPower II 10/100" > >> > are no longer equipped with "Digital 21140" chips, but rather with > >> > EPIC/100 83c170 chips. > >> > > >> > This has some implications on the usability with FreeBSD, I guess. > >> > > >> The last ad I saw for the card showed an SMC part on the board. It was > >> definitely not a 21140 (unless they cloned it). > > > >I bought one 5 days ago and it still had the DEC chip in it. > > I guess this was an SMC EtherPower, and not an SMC EtherPower II ? Hmm, I have it installed 30 miles from here. I'm sorry, I dunno. > > Michael > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------