From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 06:36:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22199 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:36:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22188 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id GAA27673; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:36:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 06:36:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Andrew Short cc: Hile Tuohela , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for SMC EtherPower II ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This card is supported by the tx0 driver AFAIK. -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Linux == DOS of the Unix world. On Fri, 8 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote: >On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ilkka Tuohela wrote: > >I am a little biased here as I am fortunate enough (THIS time) to able to >build an entire computer from the ground up around FreeBSD, please bear >with me here. > >> I would like to try FreeBSD, but I didn't find support for my >> second network controller. Is there somewhere a driver, that >> card is based on SMC 83c170 chip, it has nothing to do with >> EtherPower cards based on DEC tulip chip. > >> I don't need that card for installing base system, but it really >> isn't worth the effort if I can't find a driver later, in normal >> use I need both cards. > >You are going to allow the incompatibility of a single ethernet controller >to stop you from implementing FreeBSD? This must be one SPECIAL card... > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 >ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message