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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: 100baseT Ethernet cards
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970325112849.009976d0@agisgate.agis.net> from Mark E Larson at "Mar 25, 97 11:28:50 am"
To: markl@agis.net (Mark E Larson)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:52:59 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> Does anyone have suggestions for 100baseT cards.  I need to run 2 cards per
> server.  the new DEC DC21041 chips don't work at all and the Intel 100b's
> won't work with 2 cards in the machine (works fine with one).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

The DC21041 is a 10Mb/s chip, and works just fine when using the Kingston
cards:
de0 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 12 on pci0:10
de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:c0:f0:04:2c:d4

For 100Mb/s operation you want a DC21140 chip, and I am currently recommending
the SMC9332BDT which has had support added for this specific card to
FreeBSD 2.1.7, 2.2 and 3.0. 

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