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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:48:51 +0100
From:      Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Johan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.se>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX?
Message-ID:  <20070130094851.GB2019@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
In-Reply-To: <6934F894-BDD2-4185-9245-8B53407C3903@stromnet.se>
References:  <16425E76-4111-4DE3-970D-A5E1E29EA194@stromnet.se> <20070130003419.GA5092@cdnetworks.co.kr> <6934F894-BDD2-4185-9245-8B53407C3903@stromnet.se>

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:09:15AM +0100, Johan Str=F6m wrote:
>=20
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 01:34 , Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>=20
> >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?
> >>From 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.
>=20
> Goodie :) I got a private mail from wpaul too confirming this.
>=20

Thanks, I have added this card to the bge(4) hardware list, so it'll
show up as supported for the next release.

- Christian

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