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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!mayonews.mayo.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!iijnet!tom!usenet From: nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does 3c590 (Etherlink XL PCI) work with FreeBSD 2.1.5? Date: 19 Oct 1996 05:54:01 GMT Organization: Tom Yam, Edogawa, JAPAN Lines: 21 Message-ID: <NAO.96Oct19145401@miffy.tom-yam.or.jp> References: <3267ce35.8392563@netnews.worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: miffy.tom-yam.or.jp In-reply-to: bscott@ucsd.edu's message of Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:38:37 GMT Brian wrote: >Hi. I'm considering switching from Linux to FreeBSD, and was wondering >if 2.1.5 >supported the 3com 3c590 NIC? I was looking at the supported hardware list on >the web, and it didn't say that it was supported, but it didn't say it wasn't >supported either. Brian, you meant the 3C900 (or 3C905) Etherlink XL PCI adapter? It is not supported. 3COM does not provide the necessary technical reference yet. If you meant 3C590 Etherlink III PCI adapter, it IS supported, but the driver is quite brain-damaged. I am now developing a new driver for 3C59[05] PCI adapter and 3C59[27] EISA adapter. It works quite well for me. If you interested in this driver, get it from ftp://jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/vx.tar.gz. Patches for 2.1.5-RELEASE and 2.2-961014-SNAP are available. -nao