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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: gryphon@healer.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Known working ethernet cards
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>Hi. I need a known-working reliable ethernet card for FreeBSD 2.x
>(2.0.5 and higher).
>
>I have been told the SMC Elite Ultra is no longer in production.
>The replacement model is the SMC Ether-EZ #8416.
>
>Does anyone know if this card works well (ie. very stable)
>with the "ed" driver?
>
>If not, is there another known stable ISA 16-bit combo ethernet card
>(shared memory prefered) that works with the "ed" driver?
>
>Please send to me directly, as I do not read "freebsd-questions".

I have an SMC Ether-EZ (8416) installed on a FreeBSD machine that has
been working flawlessly for a few months.  My only disappointment was
having to use the DOS utility provided with the card to set the IRQ,
IO memory address, etc. - our FreeBSD machine had no DOS/Windows on it
and we had to take apart another machine in order to confgure the card.

I had expected this card to have 16K of RAM, but it only has 8K.  I
haven't performed any timing tests to see if this affects performance.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org