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From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: which ethernet cards suppported?
Date: 14 Aug 1995 18:05:30 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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References: <40ig1m$r5l@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <jcaron-1308950151290001@modem2-08.planete.net> <40n24g$iv1@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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In article <40n24g$iv1@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
|> Jacques Caron <jcaron@pressimage.net> wrote:
|> 
|> >>I am planning to install an ethernet NIC in my FreeBSD (1.1.5.1) computer.
|> # driver for the Western Digital and SMCC WD80xx cards, for the Novell
|> # NE1000/2000 card and the 3COM 3C503 card.
|> device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
|> # driver for the AT&T Starlan card.
|> device ie0 at isa? port 0x360 net irq 7 iomem 0xd0000 vector ieintr
|> #driver for the Isolan AT 4114-0 and the Isolink 4110 ethernet card.
|> device is0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 10 drq 7 vector isintr
|> #device ix0 at isa? port 0x320 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 32768 vector\
|>  ixintr
|> # driver for the Etherlink III ( 3C509 ) card, beta version.
|> device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
|> #driver for the 3c501
|> device el0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 9 vector elintr
|> # IBM/National PCMCIA ethernet cards
|> device ze0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector zeintr
|> 
|> I think, the most stable driver has been the `ed' driver, and the
|> WD8013 (compatible) cards.  I'm also running the `is' driver with an
|> esoteric Isolan board.

In case he owns a PCI bus system, I still have the 
FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 PCI bus patches available via FTP.

They will allow use of DEC 21040 based PCI Ethernet
cards (several models from DEC, Znyx, SMC).

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