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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any hope of finding a Driver for the 3COM 3C595 PCI? Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:46:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4k6047$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4k4gd5$eng@magellan.tekamah.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jerry@magellan.tekamah.com (Jerome Wieber) writes: > Or, I guess the 3C590 as well. Anyway, I'm buying a new system, and The if_vx driver is already in the development sources, and it fits right back into 2.1R as well. The driver is PIO mode only however, so it eats up your CPU. > I haven't a clue as to what I *should* get. The 3c590 also seems to cause problems for other systems, in partic- ular, it runs only in one of the PCI slots when doing bus-master DMA (looks like a gratuitous misunderstanding of the PCI architecture). Get a DEC-21040 based card. They are built by SMC (84<something>), by Cogent, and i think also by some other vendors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)