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Date:      14 May 1999 19:05:53 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MB86950 Support in the works?
Message-ID:  <xzpn1z737ke.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Kris Kirby's message of "Thu, 13 May 1999 14:35:22 -0500"
References:  <373B297A.97302414@airnet.net>

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Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> writes:
> I was wondering if any adventurous individual has looked into writing a
> driver for the MB86950 ethernet controller. I have quite a few cards
> that use this chip and would be more than willing to acid-test the
> driver. (Ever got 1MB/s over coax? :-))

Yes, I've experienced sustained transfer rates in excess of 1 MBps on
a 10Base2 network, with FreeBSD 3.1 using an SMC based Kingston EtherX
(ISA PnP NE2000 clone thingamabob) in one end and a nondescript Linux
box in the other end.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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