Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.rockefeller.edu> Cc: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100+ PCI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980507161807.17871D-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <199805072131.RAA16674@dna.rockefeller.edu>
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Dan Ts'o wrote: > > As I understand it, the PRO/100+ is just a PRO/100B, but fabricated > > differently -- they figured out how to do it with one less chip. But > > the interface is the same. > > An Intel support engineer told me that, although very similar, the > Pro/100+ and Pro/100B are not identical at the software/driver level and The FreeBSD fxp0 driver supports both. The Pro100+ is basically the same as the Pro100B except that the Pro100+ combines two chips into one. I would always get the Pro100+, as it is probably more reliable (lower power consumption too). See archives. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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