Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:45:05 -0500 From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970214163739.006b18c4@netrix.lkg.dec.com>
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>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. Not true. The SMC8434 uses normal PCI INT routing through a PCI-PCI Bridge. The thing that changed is that MB vendors started following the PCI spec and getting better BIOS support. I have one of the original 8484s and have never had a problem with it. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message
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