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Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961113174654.19226A-100000@yama.communique.net> from Raul Zighelboim at "Nov 13, 96 05:51:27 pm"
To: mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:22:40 +0100 (MET)
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Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a PPro ...
> 
> I tried using the SMC PCI ethernet card, but the 10baseT support seems 
> broken: the first card we tried, would slow down to a crowl after a few 
> minutes.  The second one will not see/bessen by the hub at all.
> Then we tried to order the 3C595.. backlog on most stores.
> 
> We ordered a 3C590.  We received instead a 3C900 card, the 590 beeing 
> discontinued :-(
> 
> Questions:  
> 	What PCI Ethernet card is solid and has good support under FBSD?
> 	Is it possible to get this 3C900 card working under 2.1.5 ?
> 
> Thanks for the answeres :-)
> 
> 


The current driver for the 3c590 also has 5c900 support. Try the one
in current. You can also try the driver in 
	ftp://freebsd.org/pub/incoming/vx.tar.gz

It has a 2.1.5 patch as well.

-Guido