From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 25 12:32:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06961 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from agisgate.agis.net (agisgate.agis.net [205.137.48.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA06924; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from radio (ops1.agis.net [205.137.48.54]) by agisgate.agis.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18730; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:32:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970325153319.00fdd340@agisgate.agis.net> X-Sender: markl@agisgate.agis.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:33:19 -0500 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Mark E Larson Subject: Re: 100baseT Ethernet cards Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes I did misspeak here. The new dec21140-B chips do not work. I have plenty of servers in production with the 21140-A chips. At 09:52 AM 3/25/97 -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> >> Does anyone have suggestions for 100baseT cards. I need to run 2 cards per >> server. the new DEC DC21041 chips don't work at all and the Intel 100b's >> won't work with 2 cards in the machine (works fine with one). >> >> Any suggestions? >> > >The DC21041 is a 10Mb/s chip, and works just fine when using the Kingston >cards: >de0 rev 17 int a irq 12 on pci0:10 >de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:c0:f0:04:2c:d4 > >For 100Mb/s operation you want a DC21140 chip, and I am currently recommending >the SMC9332BDT which has had support added for this specific card to >FreeBSD 2.1.7, 2.2 and 3.0. > >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD > > ################################################################### A P E X G L O B A L I N F O R M A T I O N S E R V I C E S ################################################################### Network Operations Center 313-730-5151 noc@agis.net News Administration 313-730-5151 news@agis.net Business Office/Sales 313-730-1130 sales@agis.net Visit our Web Page: http://www.agis.net Network News Information: http://agisgate.agis.net/netnews/netnews.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't throw a HSSI...and drop that ethernet!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------