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Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???
To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:56:56 +0300 (MSK)
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        hardware@freefall.freebsd.org, bag@demos.su (Alex G. Bulushev)
In-Reply-To: <199611212022.VAA10726@gvr.win.tue.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Nov 21, 96 09:22:40 pm
From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
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> Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> > Questions:  
> > 	What PCI Ethernet card is solid and has good support under FBSD?
> > 	Is it possible to get this 3C900 card working under 2.1.5 ?
There doesn't exist  _good_ driver in 2.1.5r, 2.1.6r for 3c590/595, but there
is _good_ and even working driver in -current tree/2.2-ALPHA tree.

As for SMC, we _use_ SMC DEC 2104x based cards on 2.1.0r, 2.1.5r, 2.2-ALPHA
for a year already, i.e. - they work. Plugged on various kinds of motherboads.

What I wonder is what cards are plugged, say, in ftp.freebsd.org and if 2114x
based chips work? What other PCI 100Mb cards would you, guys, recommend?

> The current driver for the 3c590 also has 5c900 support. Try the one
> in current. You can also try the driver in 
> 	ftp://freebsd.org/pub/incoming/vx.tar.gz
> It has a 2.1.5 patch as well.
> -Guido

-mishania