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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: 3c509 driver...
To: ccsanady@iastate.edu (Chris Csanady)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:25:26 +0500 (GMT+0500)
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> hello.  anyway, i have a  problem.  currently im running NetBSD, and
> am planning on switching to FreeBSD, but i need fast and reliable
> networking.  i heard that the current driver in FreeBSD was not very
> stable..  anyways, i was wondering, how hard it would be to port

I'm running FreeBSD on my `workstation' with 3c509 card and I see 
no problems now. If doesnt't conflict with any other driver it works
OK and gives upto 1.1Mbyte/s on receiving of 20M file. I don't know 
what would be with more heavy usage.

> the ep driver from netbsd?  it looks as though they were at one point
> the same driver even..  

I'm not shure but perhaps it will be easy.

> if this would be trivial, could some kind person help me out?  i have
> never done any work with kernel/driver stuff before. :(

		Serge Babkin

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