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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:10:56 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Walter Hop" <walter@binity.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: HP Vectra M2 4/100i onboard Ethernet type?
Message-ID:  <003201c12c5b$27fe2e20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <909196624.20010823185226@binity.com>

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About 5 years ago I worked at a company that used those in a training
classroom.  If I remember right, they used the old AMD PC-Net chipset.  This
chipset (using the lnc driver) is not the best out there and is a
crapshoot - it may work for you or it may not.  Sun liked it well enough
to embed it on the motherboards of their Sparcs which I think is why
so many UNIX folk seem to have warm fuzzies for it, me I never had 
nothing but trouble from it.

Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Walter Hop
>Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:52 AM
>To: FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: HP Vectra M2 4/100i onboard Ethernet type?
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>under a pile of dust I discovered an old HP Vectra M2 4/100i
>(486DX4/100) with an onboard Ethernet controller of unknown origin. I'd
>like to play around with it. It does not autodetect; I tried some
>drivers, but not all, as a kernel compile takes fairly long on this old
>lady. Can anyone point me at the right driver to use?
>
>Thanks!
>walter.
>
>-- 
> Be strange. It's careful out there.
> walter@binity.com | +31 6 24290808 | http://www.binity.com/~walter/pgp/
>
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