From owner-freebsd-isp Mon May 20 18:16:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08241 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 18:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.net.hk (john@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA08234 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 18:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from john@localhost) by gateway.net.hk (8.7.4/8.7.3) id JAA04648; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:15:32 +0800 (HKT) Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:15:31 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: Michael Dillon cc: Jim Dixon , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Support for Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 May 1996, Michael Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 1996, Jim Dixon wrote: > > > found it to be unstable. Is there a reliable driver for the '590 > > available anywhere? We have been running a busy news server with the vx driver dropped into 2,1.0R and a '590 card for 6 months without the slightest problem. jbeukema > > > > What would be of even more interest would be a reliable driver for the > > 3C595, which handles either 10 MHz 10BaseT or 100 MHz Fast Ethernet. > > There are Linux drivers for both 3C59X cards that are quite stable. Do an > altavista search for Linux AND 3C590 AND Becker > > Perhaps they could be adapted to FreeBSD or perhaps studying their code > could help make the FreeBSD drivers better? > > Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 > Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com > >