Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:45:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: multiport ethernet Message-ID: <199611281945.LAA10654@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.3.95.961127171134.-466169B-100000@swoosh.dunn.org> from Bradley Dunn at "Nov 27, 96 05:14:43 pm"
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> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > SMC has a dual port 10/100 card, SMC8434, that can be had for > > > $230US. If you don't need high port density this one may be a > > > better deal. Don't know if it works with the de driver. > > > > WARNING!!! The SMC8434 requieres a motherboard that routes both > > PCI INT A and B to the slot, very few if any PCI 2.x compliant > > boards do this. Nothing from ASUS can run this card, infact about > > the only thing I have found that can run this card is old PCI 1.x > > boards with jumpers to manually route the interrupts. > > Ok, help clear some things up for me here. > > The dual port 10/100 PCI card is the SMC9334, right? Not sure, I have not looked at that card, nor does my distibutor catalog list that part number. > > The SMC8434 is the dual port 10Mbps PCI, right? Yes. > > Now which of those two works and which doesn't? I don't know anything about the SMC9334, but the SMC8434 has some very special motherboard requirements, which I can't find anyone's board that has them (or atleast any current production board that has both INT A and INT B routable to a slot). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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