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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: RELNOTES 2.0.5A about de driver
To: moto@CS.cmu.edu
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 23:17:22 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <11712.801891455@GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> from "moto@CS.cmu.edu" at May 30, 95 11:37:35 pm
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Congratulation for releasing 2.0.5 Alpha. I haven't installed it yet,
> but I'd like to make a comment on RELNOTES.
> 
> In section 2.2, it says:
> 
>   DEC DC21140 based NICs (SMC???? DE???)

SMC9332 EtherPower 10/100
 
> and SMC???? should be 'SMC EtherPower', I guess. I'm not sure but it's
> based on a DEC DC21040 chip. My card (EtherPower) is recognized as:

That is the 10MB/sec only card, the ones being talked about above
are dual mode 10MB and 100MB/sec cards.  

> 
> de0 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 11 on pci0:6
>         reg20: virtual=0xf4786c00 physical=0xffbffc00 size=0x80
> de0: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
> de0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:5f:76:0e

This is the SMC8432 card.

> and works great under 954012 SNAP.

There have been several bugs fixed since then in the driver, but they
are rarely noticed bugs.  Be carefull after reboots, the card can
corrupt memory during a reboot in this version of FreeBSD.  If you
see strangness on your system do a cold power cycle boot or update
to 2.0.5A.

> # I can hardly wait for 2.0.5R :-)

:-), I can, I am about burnt out :-)

-- 
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