From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 22 13:32:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F6237B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 13:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11732; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:31:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08815; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:31:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15114.52400.477040.134777@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:31:44 -0600 (MDT) To: Doug White Cc: Toby Hutton , Subject: Re: Two identical pccard NICs? In-Reply-To: References: <15103.11936.163098.939181@kevin.vic.bigpond.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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