From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 11:41:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13279 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:41:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA13250 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00338; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:39:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:39:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are these 3Com ethernet cards supported in 2.2? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970211170729.006a4514@lda> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Peter Olsson wrote: > I'm going to build a freebsd 2.2-server with two network-cards. > > I have the following cards to choose from: > 3Com Etherlink III 3c509B-TPO EISA > 3Com Etherlink XL 3c900-TPO PnP PCI Both of these are supported, but I would recommend against the XL. It has very little onboard buffer space, which causes errors galore on my P133 workstation. The Digital-based cards (listed in the Handbook) are very nice, cheap, and don't have this problem. If you still want the XL it's supported on 2.2 and later. > If possible, how would I make this configuration available in the kernel? > There are ed0 and ed1 in GENERIC, but I don't see anything similar for 3Com, > just xx0. If someone has a configuration for two of the cards above, I > would be very happy to see the relevant configurationlines. It's the vx0 driver, so just 'device vx0' is sufficient. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major