Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:56:27 -0500 From: jc@irbs.com (John Capo) To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco) Cc: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMC Dual channel Ethernet Message-ID: <19970214125627.QY49413@irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199702141445.IAA16690@solaria.sol.net>; from Joe Greco on Feb 14, 1997 08:45:54 -0500 References: <199702141242.GAA20307@iworks.InterWorks.org> <199702141445.IAA16690@solaria.sol.net>
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Quoting Joe Greco (jgreco@solaria.sol.net): > > Does anyone know if the SMC Dual channel ethernet cards are supprted? > > I'm looking at both the SMC9334 10/100 and the SMC8434 Combo PCI > > ethernet cards. > > > > I'd expect them to work just like their single channel counterparts, > > but would feel better in ordering them if someone could confirm. > > We'll probably be running some version -current. > > I'm running a pair of them in my core router; very nice cards. I've also > got a small fleet of them in a bunch of news servers. They work well.. > Here's a note I have from Rod Grimes concerning these cards, YMMV. 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. John Capo
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