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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 1998 18:57:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mark turpin <mturpin@shadow.spel.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        jt&mn <jtorranc@televar.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981214185209.15459A-100000@shadow.spel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981214114218.06ce3d90@mail.lariat.org>

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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Brett Glass wrote:

> I've found the GENIUS board cheap at warehouse.com. BTW, is the driver
> shipping with FreeBSD 2.2.8? Or do I need to add it? Also, how much
> overhead is there? Does the board use programmed I/O, DMA, or shared
> memory?
> 

	I don't think that the driver is in 2.2.8,  you can get it from
www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek 

	You'll want to read the comments in the if_rl.c file for some idea
of performance.   They work great for me,  I run a computer training
center.  

Mark

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