From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 14 14:07:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04494 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail12.digital.com (mail12.digital.com [192.208.46.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA04480 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by mail12.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id QAA07271; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:44:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from usr403.zko.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA13806; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:44:50 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970214163739.006b18c4@netrix.lkg.dec.com> X-Sender: popmatt@netrix.lkg.dec.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (32) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:45:05 -0500 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Matt Thomas Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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