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From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
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Subject: Re: 3c509 driver...
To: ccsanady@iastate.edu (Chris Csanady)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 07:43:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Chris Csanady writes:
> 
> 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
> the ep driver from netbsd?  it looks as though they were at one point
> the same driver even..  
> 
> if this would be trivial, could some kind person help me out?  i have
> never done any work with kernel/driver stuff before. :(

I use a 3C509 with no problems.  There are only 5 machines on this
ethernet, but I haven't detected a single problem.

Peter

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