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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
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Subject: Re: open offer for DEC-21140AC driver
To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 97 6:59:29 CST
Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199701210813.AAA24976@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jan 21, 97 00:13:52 am
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> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:48:22 -0600 (CST) 
>  Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> wrote:
> 
>  >   We're in need of a driver for the DEC-21140AC-based 100mb ethernet
>  > cards for 2.1.6 and we're interested in paying somebody to develop the
>  > driver for it (shouldn't be too much change on top of the existing driver).
>  > If you have the expertise and would be willing to develop this driver soon
>  > please send me a quote.
> 
> I recently committed an update (from Matt Thomas) to the "de" driver
> to NetBSD... and it should work with these cards:
> 
> de0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 at irq 9
> de0: SMC 9332 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2
> de0: address 00:00:c0:e2:7b:e4
> de0: enabling 10baseT port
> de1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 at irq 9
> de1: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
> de1: address 00:c0:f0:16:29:56
> de1: enabling 10baseT port
> 
> Might try the NetBSD-current version of the driver (should have all of
> the #ifdefs to make it go under FreeBSD).

I tried Matt's driver back in October/November, with both the new SMC
EtherPower 10/100's and the Kingston cards, and it works very very nicely.

Unfortunately only under 2.1.*, it was not compatible with 2.2.* without
lots of hacking.

... Joe

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