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To: jayrich@room101.sysc.com
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Subject: Re: support for intel etherexpress 10 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:06:03 -0700
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>I was looking through the handbook because I want to buy an Intel
>Etherexpress PRO/10+ PCI card.  It mentions the "Intel Etherexpress" as
>being supported.  However, I looked at the LINT file for 2.2-stable and it
>only mentions fxp0 as the PCI driver for the PRO/100 only.  It's been my
>experience that sometimes a card's ISA version will work, but it's PCI
>will not.
>
>I just wanted to make sure before I bought the card that it works with
>FreeBSD... perhaps FreeBSD 3.0 and not 2.2.2?
>
>Does anyone have this card working or can anyone tell me for sure if it's
>supported?

   Intel's product naming is quite confusing. The Pro/10+ refers to either
the ISA or the PCI adapter, but these use entirely different chips and aren't
software compatible at all with each other. The PCI Pro/10+ is supported in
the 'fxp' driver, and the ISA Pro/10+ is support in the 'ex' driver.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project