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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NE2100 compatible configuration
Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:18:32 +0100
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 <chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>In article <46hu25$kes@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, treyco@aol.com (TreyCo) writes:
>> I am very new to the UNIX world and have absolutely no idea of how to get
>> my NE2100 compatible ethnet card to work properly under FreeBSD.  
>> 
>> I would appreciate any help I could get.
>
>I also need help on this.  I have an ExpertLan PNET2100 (a PCI NE2100
>"compatible".  A couple of months ago this was working on Linux so I
>kept it in the hope that FreeBSD support would not be long in coming, but
>no go with the 951020 snap.  Am I doing something wrong?

It's been supported for rather long (perhaps even since early 386BSD
days?), since it uses the Lance chipset (Am 7990 if i'm not mistaken).
This one has been covered by the `is' driver in previous releases, and
is now supported by the `lnc' driver.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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