Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 20:19:14 +0100 (MET) From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet Message-ID: <199702141919.UAA09344@server.us.tld> In-Reply-To: <19970214125627.QY49413@irbs.com> from John Capo at "Feb 14, 97 12:56:27 pm"
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> 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. > 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 am running very successfully a SMC 8434BT in a Chaintech 5IFM1 using 2.2-GAMMA. de0 <Digital 21040 Ethernet> rev 36 int a irq 5 on pci1:4 de0: SMC 8434BT-CH1 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4 de0: address 00:00:c0:ba:73:e0 de0: enabling BNC/AUI port de1 <Digital 21040 Ethernet> rev 36 int a irq 10 on pci1:5 de1: SMC 8434BT-CH2 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.4 de1: address 00:00:c0:81:78:e0 de1: enabling BNC/AUI port -Andre
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