From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 10:28:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03925 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03908 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA03455; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:27:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:27:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: David Greenman cc: sfmc@inx.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro/100B ISA version In-Reply-To: <199703140352.TAA00221@X2.root.com> 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 Thu, 13 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >Hi, I went through the FreeBSD handbook and found the PCI version > >of the above card supported. My question is, would this fxp0 driver > >work for the ISA version. If not, would there be a separate version > >for the ISA card? > > A Pro/100B for ISA? Really? That's the first I've heard of it, and it does > seem a bit silly to attempt to do 100Mbps ethernet over ISA (where it isn't > possible to get even half of 100Mbps). FYI, 3com sells a 100mb-capable ISA adapter. Surprised the heck out of me when I saw it, since I swore the same thing you did. (And I hope for anything that 3com doesn't get rid of the 3c509's, or we (UO ResNet) are in big trouble if a new version of win95 doesn't come out much after that.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major