From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 11:54:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27538 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA27530 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:54:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA00210; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:51:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199702141951.LAA00210@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet In-Reply-To: <199702141825.MAA18175@solaria.sol.net> from Joe Greco at "Feb 14, 97 12:25:14 pm" To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:51:26 -0800 (PST) Cc: jc@irbs.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... Yes, it appears to be a problem specific to the SMC8434BT, SMC wised up and found out that many motherboards don't like what they did on this card and fixed it in the other boards. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD