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Date:      Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:46:28 +0200
From:      Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To:        Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DEC 21040 v.s. DEC 21140 chip for ethernet cards
Message-ID:  <32F99A64.FCB@barcode.co.il>
References:  <199702060051.RAA08170@xmission.xmission.com>

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Softweyr LLC wrote:
> 
> > Would someone please give me some information about the difference
> > between ethernet cards using DEC 21040 and DEC 21140 chips?
> > Is 21040 chip for 10BT and 21140 for 100 BT?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> --
>           "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com

Note that there are newer variants for both:
For 10BaseT there is the 21041 (works fine).
For 100BaseT there is the 21140-AC (needs some patching to the driver
sometimes, search the archives for recent postings) and the 21142 (never
tried it on FreeBSD).

Nadav


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