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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Kyle Mobley <kyle@mobley.org>
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Subject: Re: 100 base t ethernet cards
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Hey Kyle, hows it going?  :-)  nice to see you again.

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Kyle Mobley wrote:

> I have a 3com 3c905 fast etherlink 100 base t network card. now I have
> been able to get drivers for it for all os's it seems like but when i do
> a visual kernel configure with freebsd boot disk it's not there. now can
> i use the 3c905 100 base t network card? if not can you let me know what
> 100 base t network cards do work with freebsd? oh by the way I'm going
> to be running freebsd 2.2.5.

the vx driver is a PCI device with is not configurable from userconfig.
It'll appear under the PCI device listing.  I assume that the vx driver
can grok 100mbit mode okay since you can't override it with link flags, or
else the man page is seriously out of date.

The fxp and de drivers also support 100mbit cards.  fxp is the Intel
EtherExpress Pro/100B card, and the de supports Digital based PCI
cards,such as those made by Dayna, Accton, SMC, Kingston, and others.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major