Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:13:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bogusz Jelinski <bogusz@lib.amu.edu.pl> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: francis yeung <fyeung@netific.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD NE2100 PCI Ethernet support Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960926135552.9166A-100000@lib.amu.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <57sp85laoa.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>
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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
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