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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!tsiren!not-for-mail From: nnd@itfs.nsk.su (Nickolay N. Dudorov) Subject: Re: Multiport Ethernet X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Sender: usenet@itfs.nsk.su (Deputy News Master) Organization: Infoteka Message-ID: <DqoMyH.8or@itfs.nsk.su> References: <ABw9tGrG_0@qsar.chem.msu.su> <4lponf$8b5@verdi.nethelp.no> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: info.itfs.nsk.su Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:56:39 GMT Lines: 22 Steinar Haug (sthaug@nethelp.no) wrote: > ["Eugene Radchenko"] > > | Well, it almost happened - we are running out of slots in our FBSD > | server/router. I wonder which (if any) multiport ethernet cards (like SMC > | EtherPower2) work with FreeBSD. (FBSD driver not included, as might be > | expected). Are they indeed '2 adapters in one' as marketed (i.e. I just put > | 2 devices - ed[i] and ed[i+1] - in LINT) or is a special driver required? > > I have configured a machine which uses one SMC Etherpower2 card and one > ZNYX 314 card. The ZNYX is 4 10baseT ports, for a total of 6 10baseT ports > in 2 PCI slots. Works great with the standard if_de driver - many thanks > to Matt Thomas! But be prepared to upgrade your motherboard BIOS - ZNYX 314 (as well as Cogent EM-964, which I use with some patching of if_de driver) used DEC's 21050 PCI-TO-PCI bridge which MUST be configured by BIOS - and all BIOSes in my computers are from 1994 and do not do their job ;-( N.Dudorov