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From: "Alexander V. Tischenko" <flash@intech.hway.ru>
To: "Max Khon" <max@iclub.nsu.ru>,
        "Michael Smith" <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:30 +0400
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Max,
I've got a source for one. It was once a port of linux driver code to
2.1.5-RELEASE.
If you need it, i'll send you.

Alexander V. Tischenko

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> From: Max Khon <max@iclub.nsu.ru>
> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles
> Date: 30 èþëÿ 1997 ã. 11:02
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> > How about giving us a complete description of the problem, including
> > what (if anything) differs between the Linux and FreeBSD
> > configurations of the card.
> 
> Linux uses PCNet32/PCNet PCI optimized driver (dword i/o operations),
> while FreeBSD uses Generic LANCE/PCNet driver (word i/o access mode)
> btw, is there anybody going to write PCNet32/PCNet PCI driver for
FreeBSD?
> Linux (and Win95 ;) have no troubles with these network cards
> 
> > For that matter, have you tried running Linux on this _particular_
> > machine?
> 
> yep. and it runs perfectly. the only reason to against installing Linux
is
> that our main server is a FreeBSD box (YP password shadowing will not
work
> with Linux clients)
> 
> /max