From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 27 14:18:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16504 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16495 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:18:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from swoosh.dunn.org (swoosh.dunn.org [206.158.7.243]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id RAA02975; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:18:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:14:43 -0500 () From: Bradley Dunn To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: multiport ethernet In-Reply-To: <199611272111.NAA08481@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: bradley@harborcom.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > SMC has a dual port 10/100 card, SMC8434, that can be had for > > $230US. If you don't need high port density this one may be a > > better deal. Don't know if it works with the de driver. > > WARNING!!! The SMC8434 requieres a motherboard that routes both > PCI INT A and B to the slot, very few if any PCI 2.x compliant > boards do this. Nothing from ASUS can run this card, infact about > the only thing I have found that can run this card is old PCI 1.x > boards with jumpers to manually route the interrupts. Ok, help clear some things up for me here. The dual port 10/100 PCI card is the SMC9334, right? The SMC8434 is the dual port 10Mbps PCI, right? Now which of those two works and which doesn't? -BD