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To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com
cc: Javier A Garcia Mantecon <mantecon@mail.holiday-la.com.mx>,
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Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro + 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 07:54:56 EST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 12:18:25 -0800
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>>>>>> "DG" == David Greenman <dg@root.com> writes:
>
>Matt>  Hmm. I have two such boards on a 2.1.5R box here.
>
>DG>    If we're talking about the Pro/10+ card, then I'm sorry to say
>DG> that this isn't supported. It will require some additional code in
>DG> the 'fxp' driver to select the proper mode for the PHY.  If we're
>DG> talking about the Pro/10, then that card isn't yet supported, but
>DG> might be in the future via a new ethernet driver.
>
>Very interesting. I've got the EtherExpress Pro 10/100 board on a 10mb
>network. (The other isn't on an active LAN.) I haven't had *any*
>problems with it all. I'm doing NFS across the link, pretty big file
>transfers, etc., and haven't noticed any performance problems, and the
>machine is rock-solid.
>
>Kinda makes me wonder how well *supported* hardware will work! :-)

   Actually, what you have is the Pro/100B, and that *is* supported.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project