From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 23:58:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA12081 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA12073 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:58:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) id JAA13261; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:57:33 +0300 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:57:33 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Ian Kallen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC FastEtherworks? In-Reply-To: <199608152047.UAA17609@gamespot.com> 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 Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > Does the DEC FastEtherworks pci 10/100baseT card have the DC21041 > chip that everyone seems to be so enthused about? (Datacomm Warehouse > has 'em for $139) > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com > Director of Technology & Web Administration > http://www.gamespot.com > The DEC FastEtherworks PCI (DE500) uses the DC21140. The DC21041 is a 10mbps chip, and DEC uses it on the DE450 and in most of the built-in ethernets they have (like on the Multia or the Prioris servers). All of those cards are supported by FreeBSD's de driver (I have them all working). Note that if you want to use the 10/100 card at 10mbps, you'll need to add "-link2" to the ifconfig line for it, as there is a bug with the speed/media detection code of the de driver. Enjoy Nadav