Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:31:44 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Toby Hutton <thutton@vet.com.au>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Two identical pccard NICs? Message-ID: <15114.52400.477040.134777@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105221317320.66224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <15103.11936.163098.939181@kevin.vic.bigpond.net.au> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105221317320.66224-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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> > Hello, > > > > I have two old 3Com 3c589 cards, one's a C and the other's a D but > > 3c589C != 3c589D. They are _very_ different cards. Actually, no. At one point I had a 3c589, 3c589B, 3c589C, and 3c589D, and all worked with ep0. It took only a little bit of tweaking in the driver to make them all work. Right now I'm using a 3c589D (at this very moment), and it works fine, and has worked fine since the FreeBSD 2.2 days or even possibly earlier. > They aren't even close > to being driver-compatible. Reference Windows drivers ... they have > separate drivers for A-C and D. Actually, Windows had different drivers for *all* of them at one point or the other. The only difference in the FreeBSD drivers was increasing some delays in the probe, if I remember correctly. My thinking is that windows uses different drivers b/c it makes the consumer feel better to get both a card *AND* a floppy disk in the packaging. :) :) :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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