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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: SMC EISA Ethernet card on BSD/386 or FreeBSD Date: 26 Jun 1994 03:06:43 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2uj9e3$obu@panix3.panix.com> References: <LIEN.94Jun21214112@tam.cs.monash.edu.au> <VIXIE.94Jun21223749@office.home.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com In article <VIXIE.94Jun21223749@office.home.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote: >>Could someone tell me whether the SMC EISA Ethernet card (32-bit) works with >>either BSD/386 or FreeBSD please ? > >SMC is kindof an also-ran and its interface is wildly unlike the current crop >of cards. Since their hardware isn't "enough cheaper" I don't expect driver >support to appear soon, in any *BSD, free or commercial. You _are_ talking about the SMC 3XXX series of cards, not the SMC 8XXX series they inherited from Western Digital, right? I'm pretty sure NetBSD supports the EISA variant of the SMC (ne\*' WD) 8003/8013/8216. Is there some reason it wouldn't? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud