Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:36:22 -0500 (EST) From: skiernan@nai.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp status? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103081432450.9579-100000@magneto.va.tislabs.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA714F3.E28037B5@softweyr.com>
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote: > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > Now, the 21143 (which is a pretty nice chip and has available > > > documentation and a decent driver, "dc") is discontinued, but there > > > are clones which work reasonably well (and are even cheaper, around > > > $30 or so at compusa, i think netgear or linksys does one of these > > > cards). I'd go with them. No multiport card, at least as far as i know. > > > > Could you tell the exact models ? I know that the SMC cards > > and some others are using the same chip as well but apparently they > > have some differences in some parts circuitry, so that they need > > special support in the driver. So I wonder if you actually got > > these Linksys and Netgear cards working with FreeBSD. > > NetGear FA310TX. Yes, I have several working under FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Actually, the FA310TX comes in a couple of different forms. One with the Tulip chipset and another with PNIC, I believe. It seems that they changed chipsets partway into the life of the product code for the card. -- Stephen J. Kiernan NAI Labs @ PGP, Inc. skiernan@nai.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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