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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.isp.net!trout.progroup.com!seabass.progroup.com!news From: Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any hope of finding a Driver for the 3COM 3C595 PCI? Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 18:24:55 -0800 Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31672777.3F54BC7E@progroup.com> References: <4k4gd5$eng@magellan.tekamah.com> <4k6047$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: seabass.progroup.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) J Wunsch wrote: > > 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. > I had a 590 in my machine for awhile. I could not back port the vx driver; I think I* grabbed the wrong one or something. Anyway, it sat in the box for awhile and caused problems with the serial ports. Then I got the SMC ether ??? and config'd the de0, compiled and booted. It works like a champ. Wanna buy a cheap 3c590? -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088