Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:00:17 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: jc@irbs.com, jgreco@solaria.sol.net Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet Message-ID: <199702142000.OAA21541@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> > 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. I think I'll order one of the 9334s, and get another (single) combo adapter. The problem is that our connection to outside our subnet (actually we will have at least 2 internal subnets), is thick net right now - but that may change sometime in the future. So for now, the easiest thing to do is to get a thicknet capable adapter. We already have one 10/100 single channel in the machine, but I thought I'd replace it with the Dual channel which gives us a spare adapter :) Joe, if you've got any opinions on Fast hubs, I'd appreciate a little advice (off the list). Thanks everyone! Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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