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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Castor Fu" <castor@geocast.com>
To:        Larry Baird <lab@gta.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yet another Intel 82559 device id
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.4.10.10006161100220.4261-100000@swamp.sfo.geocast.net>
In-Reply-To: <394A6B3C.1A5253B2@gta.com>

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> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:29:04 EDT, Larry Baird wrote:
> > >
> > >Anybody else come across this device id?
> > 
> > We ran across it in our firmware support recently as well.  It appears
> > to be suffixed with "ER" but seems to operate the same.  Most annoying.
> Mine has the ER suffix as well.  As you say most annoying.
> 
> Hopefully David Greenman can use this info to update the fxp driver.

The ER version is a reduced-functionality/cost version of the 82559.
The 82559 has some sort of support for an integrated modem and is used
in a lot of the modem/lan combo cards.  The ER removes the modem
functionality.



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