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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux->BSD
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:11:45 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: georgeh@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu's message of Fri, 11 Feb 1994 06:52:13 GMT


In article <H9VLBVSH@math.fu-berlin.de> georgeh@ritcsh.csh.rit.edu
(George Hartz) writes:

   First of all, does BSD still support such a small selection of
   network cards?

Depends on what you mean by `small'.

* WD and SMC 8390-based cards (basically all of them)
* 3C503, 3C509 (and probably 3C507, but I can't actually test it)
* NE1000, NE2000, NE2100
* AT&T StarLAN (82586-based cards)
* BICC Isolan

These are all in NetBSD.

   I have a 3Com 3c509 - is it supported?

The 3C509 works well under NetBSD-current, and has been clocked at
full ethernet speed.

   I have a mitsumi drive, which has a special controller.

Should work.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
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