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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 98 14:39:48 PST
From:      "D. Alex Neilson" <neilson@www.nugate.com>
To:        damian cunniff <cunniff@elvis.rowan.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Alex Neilson <neilson@nugate.com>
Subject:   Re: 3COM NIC 3C905B-TX
Message-ID:  <CMM.0.90.4.910478388.neilson@www.nugate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:51:55 -0500 (EST)

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> Can somebody mail me a driver for [3C905B-TX]

Damian,

  The 3c905b card can be used by 2.2.6?  I had one, couldn't get it
to work, then noticed that the 3c905 was listed as supported, but
there was no mention of the 3c905b.  I even emailed the guy that
wrote the 905 drive (Fred Gray [he's in the man page]) if b was
supported, and he said he didn't write one, and hadn't touched
the code in about a year.  The man pages for vx(4) for 2.2.6
(my version anyways) say:

	The vx driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590
	and 3c595 EtherLink III and Fast EtherLink III PCI
	Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode.

The on-line man pages for 2.2.7 and 3.0-current show the same
man page (without mention of 3c905b).

I'm using plain 905s right now; linux has had the 905b driver
for a while now which is what we were using that card for (see
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html :-/).

Oh wait: on page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/notes.html
there's

  o Added full bus master DMA support for 3c900 and 3c905 adapters and
    added support for the 3c905B.
    [MERGED: Also in 2.2.8 and later releases on 2.2-STABLE branch]

	[...]

   3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B PCI and
   EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL

Well, looks like it's coming.  Not sure if one can pop the driver
code from the "2.2-STABLE branch" into one's 2.2.6 source tree and
compile away--anyone?


Alex

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