From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 13:10:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D249514CAC for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA17847; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 06:02:23 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21666; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:55:58 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:48:18 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Clem.Dye@wdr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetGear FA310-TX??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 Clem.Dye@wdr.com wrote: > According to the 3.2 release notes, the NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1 is a > supported card. I note that a specific revision is mentioned. I have > a Rev. C version of the card. Does this mean that my Rev. C won't > work with 3.2, or is it a case that only the Rev. D1 card has been Your rev C card should work nicely with the de driver, as it has a genuine DEC Tulip chip. After Intel acquired many of DEC's chip designs and stopped their production, NIC manufacturers had to change to alternative chips. The FA310-TX rev D cards use a Lite-on PNIC chip, for which Bill Paul wrote the pn driver. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message