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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psgrain!percy!agora!rgrimes From: rgrimes@agora.rain.com (Rodney Grimes) Subject: Re: 3Com TP support for 386bsd & 3Com 3C509 Message-ID: <C4sGFn.FBH@agora.rain.com> Organization: Open Communications Forum References: <001.prqe0.2683.930330180837Z.CC-MAIL*/O=DOE/PRMD=GOV+USDOE.G02/ADMD=ATTMAIL/C=US/@mailgw> <C4puHL.791@news.chalmers.se> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 04:57:23 GMT Lines: 29 olovsson@ce.chalmers.se (Tomas Olovsson) writes: >We bought a 3Com 3C509 card today in with the belief that it was backwards >compatible with the 3C503 card, but this seems to be false. >Does anyone have a driver for this card, or do we have to return the card, >in that case does anyone know if the Intel Etherexpress 16 are supported? I guess it is time to leak this out to the public. I have a working Intel EtherExpress Driver. It is fully functional for TCP/IP and friends, it does not yet have BPF, MULTICAST or NS or anything else in it. I consider it to be stable enough to let a few people use it. It is going through a major rewrite to add all the other support. If you wish to exchange your board for an IntelEtherExpress/16 I will send you the driver. The performance is good (I get 400K/sec between a 386/33 and a 386/25) but am shooting for 800K/sec with kernel mods (bde's interrupt code) and some changes in the driver. I still have to retain a copyright on the driver until I get final approval from Intel for a public release. I had to sign an NDA to get the DOCs to write the driver, but part of that NDA says I can release my code to the public, just not the document. I need Intel to sign off on one clause and I can make a more public beta release. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@agora.rain.com Accurate Automation Company All opinions belong to me and my company! Get your free copy of 386bsd from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD via ftp! An out of work contractor... You need unix work done.... Send me your project!