Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 06:25:48 -0500 From: rendallt@mpco.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network Card Compatability with BSD Message-ID: <1F3CBC5047EDD011B8E90000F878310C572CA8@MUKNTS1>
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Please can you tell me which currently available 10/100Mb Ethernet cards are compatible with BSD. I have read the supported network card list on the WEBsite and found that most of the network cards supported are now obsolete. I verified this with the manufacturers of the different cards. They were unable to tell me if their current cards are compatible. The list on the WEB site details the following cards: 2.1.2. Ethernet cards * Allied-Telesis AT1700 and RE2000 cards * SMC Elite 16 WD8013 Ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E, WD8003EBT, WD8003W, WD8013W, WD8003S, * WD8003SBT and WD8013EBT based clones. SMC Elite Ultra and 9432TX based cards are also supported. * DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) (Obsolete) * DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) (Obsolete) * DEC DC21040/DC21041/DC21140 based NICs: (Obsolete) * ASUS PCI-L101-TB * Accton ENI1203 * Cogent EM960PCI * Compex CPXPCI/32C * D-Link DE-530 (Obsolete) * DEC DE435 (Obsolete) * Danpex EN-9400P3 * JCIS Condor JC1260 * Kingston KNE100TX * Linksys EtherPCI * Mylex LNP101 * SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Model 9332) (Obsolete) * SMC EtherPower (Model 8432) (Obsolete) * SMC EtherPower (2) (Obsolete) * Zynx ZX314 * Zynx ZX342 * DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs * Fujitsu FMV-181 and FMV-182 * Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A * Intel EtherExpress * Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B 100Mbit. * Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) * Isolink 4110 (8 bit) * Lucent WaveLAN wireless networking interface. * Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 ethernet interface. * 3Com 3C501 cards * 3Com 3C503 Etherlink II * 3Com 3c505 Etherlink/+ * 3Com 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP * 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA) Etherlink III * 3Com 3C590, 3C595 Etherlink III * 3Com 3C90x cards. * HP PC Lan Plus (27247B and 27252A) * Toshiba ethernet cards * PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported. I would like to purchase a network card that will run with BSD and also most other operating systems such as QNX, RedHat Linux 5.x, Windows :(, Netware 5.0. VxWorks. I have an immediate requirement to use BSD and QNX and Linux, so far I haven't been able to get answers as to the compatibility of the most recent cards being manufactured. It seems that the most compatible card was a card which used the Dec 21040,2114x chipset. these cards seem to be impossible to source now. Dlink or SMC seemed to offer these cards in dual speed but have now replaced them with new cards that use propietry chip sets. Getting an answer from Digital is impossible; they don't seem to know what chip sets are in use on their own cards ! My Guess is that the SMC 9432TX is possibly compatible with Linux and QNX as well as all the others. Can you tell me which chip set this card uses please. Thanks Tony Rendall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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