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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:40:41 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        chamaras@singnet.com.sg (Chamara Somaratne)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL
Message-ID:  <199902160540.WAA14787@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <36C59DC3.43459D5A@singnet.com.sg> from Chamara Somaratne at "Feb 13, 99 11:44:03 pm"

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As I recall, Chamara Somaratne wrote:
> I am at the moment running 2.2.6-stable. Was thinking about upgrading
> to a later release. Can somebody provide some advise as to whether I
> should go with 3.0.0(Nov 98) or 2.2.8 (Dec 98) or 3.1 (March 99 - btw
> is this in the stable branch?)

My $0.02.

I'm running 2.2-STABLE (started with 2.2.8-RELEASE, cvsup sources
every so often).
+---------------
| FreeBSD freeway.dcfinc.com 2.2.8-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE #1:
+---------------

Just based on all the traffic on these lists, I plan to let version
3 bake a bit longer before it makes it onto my system.

> Here's my concern.  I have this 3c905B-TX FastEtherlink XL card which
> is at the moment not supported by 2.2.6, My concern is which of the
> newer releases provide better operation with this NIC.

Works fine.  Here's from a "dmesg" command...
+---------------
| xl0 <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:16:0
| xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:de:2b:a8
| xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 10Mbps)
+---------------

	-crl
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