From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 18:28:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28768 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:28:56 -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 SAA28763 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00362; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:28:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:28:15 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Miten N. Mehta" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3COM 3c900 TPO card and Free BSD In-Reply-To: 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 Feb 1997, Miten N. Mehta wrote: > Can any one please tell me whether freeBSD has got the drivers for 3COM > 3c900 TPO ( 3COM etherlink XL ) cards or not? It does, but you don't want it. I had one of these cards, and they error on me constantly. They have a very small input buffer, and this is for a 10/100mbit card! :( Plus, this card runs in PIO (slower) mode since 3com won't give out the busmaster driver specs. I highly recommend picking up a Digital-based card, generally made by Kingston, Dayna, Digital, SMC, and others. Try to shoot for a 10mbit card only, the 10/100's are changing and the driver hasn't caught up yet. > And if yes, what does freeBSD call that device as? (like ep0 for 3COM 3c509) For reference it's called vx0. > " BE PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN " Your sig is longer than your message. You might consider trimming it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major