From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 12:34:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17165 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:34:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA17152 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id UAA00918; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:46:49 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702271946.UAA00918@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: about 100mb ethernet card. To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:46:48 +0100 (MET) Cc: spchiou@dns.vit.edu.tw, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Feb 27, 97 10:46:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, spchiou wrote: > > > My o.s. is FreeBSD v2.1.5 . > > Now i have a question. > > Does this version support accton 1207tx fast ethernet card and > > it have any solution? > > Accton's PCI cards use the DEC chipsets, so this has a pretty decent > chance of working, depending on how new a chipset they used. The > DEC-based Ethernet chips (the 21140 series at least) are changing and > FreeBSD hasn't been updated to deal with them yet. the differences are minor though and the netbsd driver has a good chance of working -- it does for me modulo some minor problems (probably fixed by now) with back-to-back packets. Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________