From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 17:04:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA15060 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA15055 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 17:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.4/8.7.5) id SAA13213; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:04:15 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199701090104.SAA13213@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Which PCI enet card To: kory@avatar.com (Kory Hamzeh) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:04:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Kory Hamzeh" at Jan 8, 97 10:09:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi Everyone, > > I'm putting together a high end freebsd system. The MB is a AMI Merlin DP > Pentium Pro 200MHZ PCI system. I wanted to use the 3COM 3c590 PCI Enet > adaptor, but apparently, it is out of production and has been replaced > with the 3c900??? Anyway, the company that sold me the PC stuck a 3c900 > in it and told me it has compatible with the 3c590. freebsd 2.1.5 > certainly doesn't think so since it cant even find it!! > > What other PCI Enet cards work well with the 2.1.5 RELEASE of freebsd? I > need to get something working today! Most PCI cards based on the DEC 21040 chip seem to work well with the de driver. Be careful of very new stock cards with 21043 chips, they are probably *not* compatible with the de driver (yet). I have a couple of Dayna cards, both of which work well with 2.2-SNAP1014, even on our crowded and often jammed test network here at Dayna. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com