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From: haertel@ichips.intel.com (Mike Haertel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intel 100Mb Ethernet-adapter
Date: 2 Jun 1996 18:49:46 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
Lines: 41
Message-ID: <4osnoa$4e2@news.jf.intel.com>
References: <4oegmm$1gj@news.clinet.fi>
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In article <4oegmm$1gj@news.clinet.fi>, Mika Ruohotie <mika@aeon.net> wrote:
>I have a client who wants to connect his FreeBSD 2.2-current machine
>using the said adapter, since i do not have the adapter here, i
>can not tell more details, except that it's PCI card, using intel? 82557
>chip...
>
>Does the 2.2-current support that card?
Yes. David Greenman has written a driver for Intel EtherExpress Pro 100
cards based on the 82557 chip. This is actually the "100B" version of
the card.
There was an earlier card also called the "Pro 100", based on the 82556
chip. This is used in the EISA version of the card, and also early PCI
versions of the card. The 82556-based boards are NOT currently supported
by FreeBSD, although I have a driver that mostly works.
If you have a PCI EtherExpress Pro 100 board and it looks like this:
+-------------------+
| |
| | EtherExpress Pro 100B (PCI)
| | (supported by FreeBSD 2.2-current)
| \
| \
+-----|||||||||||||||||||
(i.e. has a diagonal cutaway over the back end of the PCI connector)
then it is the 82557-based board and *is* supported by FreeBSD 2.2.
On the other hand, if the board is an ordinary rectangular board,
then it's the original Pro 100, *not* supported by FreeBSD 2.2 although
it may be if I ever finish debugging my driver.
(BTW, although I am employed by Intel I have no association with the
network card group: I am a CPU architect. The FreeBSD driver for the
older 556-based Pro 100's that I am writing is a purely personal project,
because I happen to have one and had an itch to write a driver...)
--
Mike Haertel <haertel@ichips.intel.com>
Not speaking for Intel.