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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Support for 3com Etherlink III PCI (3c590) ???
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:20:19 GMT
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mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter) writes:

> Does FreeBSD support 3COM's Etherlink III PCI Bus master controller?
> (the 3c590)

No.

> My GENERIC kernel recognizes that the ethernet card exists, and that
> it's ethernet, but then says that there is no driver installed,
> leading me to think that I just need to compile it in.

There's a driver in -current, but alas, even this one is *not*
bus-master.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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