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Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet support in FreeBSD
To: kenny@The-B.org
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 08:59:35 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601211900.NAA01297@The-B.org> from "kenny@The-B.org" at Jan 21, 96 01:00:30 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> Has anyone started on making support for DEC 21040 or 21140 10/100Mbps and
> 3c59x cards?  Donald Becker has made support for this in the Linux kernel.
> Reference can be found at the following URLs:
> 
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html (3x59x)
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html (DEC 21x40)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kenny
> 

:-), FreeBSD supported 100Mbps and the DEC chips long before Linux did.


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de