Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:09:15 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.se> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX? Message-ID: <6934F894-BDD2-4185-9245-8B53407C3903@stromnet.se> In-Reply-To: <20070130003419.GA5092@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se> <20070130003419.GA5092@cdnetworks.co.kr>
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On Jan 30, 2007, at 01:34 , Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: >> Hi >> >> I'm about to buy a PCI 1000-SX network card, looking on eBay I've >> found both 3C996-SX and 3C985(b)-SX cards. >> Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware- >> i386.html#ETHERNET I can find "3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)", but >> not the SX? >> However, on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware- >> i386.html#ETHERNET I can see "3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T". >> So, has the -SX support been removed or something? >> =46rom the if_bge.c changelog (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ >> src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c) I found this: >> > > If my memory serve me right bge(4) supports 3Com 996SX. > I think I've used the 996SX to make bge(4) work on sparc64. Goodie :) I got a private mail from wpaul too confirming this. > >> Commit message by wpaul >>> Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking >>> the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media. >>> We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified =20 >>> that >>> they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber >>> interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm >>> keeping my fingers crossed.) >> >> But this is from 4 years ago so.. not pretty recent and no followup >> in the log. >> >> So, is it supported or not? :) >> >> Also i found some 3c985(b) cards on eBay, a bit more expensive ($10 >> or so..), but this uses the ti driver instead of bge. And from what I >> can see this driver does not support ALTQ. However, im not quite sure > > I'm not sure Max Laier(mlaier@) already made a ALTQ patch for ti(4). > If you can test ti(4) on your box I can write a ALTQ patch for ti(4). Okay :) I'll see what card I get, but as I understand it it shouldnt =20 make much difference.. Thanks for your help! :) Johan Str=F6m Stromnet johan@stromnet.se http://www.stromnet.se/
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