From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 06:11:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA20691 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 06:11:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lib.amu.edu.pl (bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl [150.254.100.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA20527 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 06:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bogusz@localhost) by lib.amu.edu.pl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA09192; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:13:25 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:13:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bogusz Jelinski To: Paul Richards cc: francis yeung , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD NE2100 PCI Ethernet support In-Reply-To: <57sp85laoa.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 26 Sep 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl writes: > > > > > I have been using a clone of this card (SVEC). It is recognized as > > NE2000. It works. > > The SVEC can't be a clone of an NE2100 if it's being detected as a > NE2000, they're totally different cards and use totally different > drivers (NE2000 is the ed0 driver). They use different chipsets. > What can I say - in the manual my card is said to be AMD Lance NE2100 compatible. Also Linux recognizes my card as AMD Lance NE2100. A few months ago I turned to FreeBSD (after having encountered problems with routing and modems under Linux) and it has been working with the ed0 driver since (during startup it claims to be NE2000). I have just installed another operating system without changing the hardware. I do not remeber what kind of chip is on my card. But I am not puzzled by this. Hardware's behaviour can not always be determined. Probably my SVEC is one of the "two-in-one" cards :-) I will contact SVEC gurus on that matter. Regards, Bogusz