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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 09:15:31 +0800 (HKT)
From:      John Beukema <john@gateway.net.hk>
To:        Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc:        Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Support for Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.960521091353.3794A-100000@gateway.net.hk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960516102715.24469b-100000@sidhe.memra.com>

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On Thu, 16 May 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 1996, Jim Dixon wrote:
> 
> > found it to be unstable.  Is there a reliable driver for the '590 
> > available anywhere?  
We have been running a busy news server with the vx driver dropped into 
2,1.0R and a '590 card for 6 months without the slightest problem.
jbeukema


> > 
> > What would be of even more interest would be a reliable driver for the
> > 3C595, which handles either 10 MHz 10BaseT or 100 MHz Fast Ethernet.
> 
> There are Linux drivers for both 3C59X cards that are quite stable. Do an
> altavista search for Linux AND 3C590 AND Becker
> 
> Perhaps they could be adapted to FreeBSD or perhaps studying their code
> could help make the FreeBSD drivers better?
> 
> Michael Dillon                                    Voice: +1-604-546-8022
> Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: michael@memra.com
> 
> 



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