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From: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q. SMC PCI Ethernet Card Support?
Date: 3 Nov 1995 20:42:16 GMT
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Hi there,
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Matt Thomas (thomas@lkg.dec.com) wrote:
: In article <46grhf$q3c_001@mail.rogers.com>, blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) writes:
: |>I'm going to install FreeBSD and I am wondering is the PCI version of the SMC
: |>Ethernet cards supported? or that is already included in the "de" driver?
: As far as I know, all the SMC PCI Ethernet cards are supported by the
: de driver in FreeBSD (though you need a recent snapshot to use the
: shipping SMC8432 cards).
IMHO this is ( SMC EtherPower ) the BEST choice for FreeBSD -
it's _very fast comparing to other 1Mb cards ( 3 times faster
than ISA based 3Com5**). Use them now at 10 servers under FreeLSD.
No bugs were detected yet
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: Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com
: U*X Networking WWW URL: http://ftp.dec.com/%7Ethomas/
: Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my
: Littleton, MA own warped views, etc.
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