Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:37:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.rockefeller.edu> Cc: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100+ PCI Message-ID: <199805080137.SAA00724@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 17:31:42 EDT." <199805072131.RAA16674@dna.rockefeller.edu>
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> > 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 > that minor changes would probably be necessary to fully support the Pro/100+. > He said that (at the time), since the Pro/100B was still on the market that > if I was concerned, I should get the Pro/100B instead to avoid problems. The 100B is actually fairly hard to get, and the 100+ works just fine. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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