From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 10:25:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22048 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:25:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smyrno.sol.net (smyrno.sol.net [206.55.64.117]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA22035 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:25:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by smyrno.sol.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id MAA05548; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:25:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id MAA18175; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:25:22 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199702141825.MAA18175@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 12:25:14 CST Cc: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com In-Reply-To: <19970214125627.QY49413@irbs.com> from "John Capo" at Feb 14, 97 12:56:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Quoting Joe Greco (jgreco@solaria.sol.net): > > > Does anyone know if the SMC Dual channel ethernet cards are supprted? > > > I'm looking at both the SMC9334 10/100 and the SMC8434 Combo PCI > > > ethernet cards. > > > > > > I'd expect them to work just like their single channel counterparts, > > > but would feel better in ordering them if someone could confirm. > > > We'll probably be running some version -current. > > > > I'm running a pair of them in my core router; very nice cards. I've also > > got a small fleet of them in a bunch of news servers. They work well.. > > Here's a note I have from Rod Grimes concerning these cards, YMMV. > WARNING!!! The SMC8434 requieres a motherboard that routes both > PCI INT A and B to the slot, very few if any PCI 2.x compliant > boards do this. Nothing from ASUS can run this card, infact about > the only thing I have found that can run this card is old PCI 1.x > boards with jumpers to manually route the interrupts. I don't know what this is all about.... ALL my boards are ASUS, and a number were purchased from Rod. Oh, wait, these are the SMC9334BDT's. I see, Rod is talking about the 10Mbps-only cards. Mental note: don't get 10baseT only cards when you can get 10/100 cards for around $210... I am running single SMC9334's in three ASUS P/E-P55T2P4D boards, a single SMC9334 in an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, and two SMC9334's and a Kingston 10/100 in another ASUS P/I-P55T2P4. I think I dropped one in an ASUS SP3G and it worked, but I am not positive. If anyone wants to know, I can find out for sure. I have seen zero instances of problems with this card and ASUS boards, although I do not think I have exceeded qty. 2 in any particular machine. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847