From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 5 8:58:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ontario.mooseriver.com (ontario.mooseriver.com [208.138.31.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB2814C45 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 08:58:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by ontario.mooseriver.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA50757; Wed, 5 May 1999 08:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:57:59 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: "Mark J. Taylor" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetGear 10/100 Ethernet: an oversight? Message-ID: <19990505085759.A50711@ontario.mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Mark J. Taylor on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:40:12AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 11:40:12AM -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > The NetGear 10/100 Ethernet card is not supported in -current. > It is supposedly DEC 21140-based. The NetGear Ethernet cards were based on the DEC "Tulip" chip a while back. In this configuration they were a very good NIC. However NetGear has stopped manufacturing these with the DEC "Tulip" chip, probably had something to do with the fact that Compaq bought DEC, and are now shipping with something else. So much for NetGear. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message