From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 8 11:37:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sentry.gw.tislabs.com (sentry.gw.tislabs.com [192.94.214.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261CB37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stevek@tislabs.com) Received: by sentry.gw.tislabs.com; id OAA20884; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:41:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from clipper.gw.tislabs.com(10.33.1.2) by sentry.gw.tislabs.com via smap (V5.5) id xma020880; Thu, 8 Mar 01 14:40:25 -0500 Received: from magneto.va.tislabs.com (IDENT:root@magneto.va.tislabs.com [192.168.10.131]) by clipper.gw.tislabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA19258 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:36:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (stevek@localhost) by magneto.va.tislabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09609 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:36:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:36:22 -0500 (EST) From: skiernan@nai.com X-Sender: stevek@magneto.va.tislabs.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp status? In-Reply-To: <3AA714F3.E28037B5@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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