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From: jmorriso@ConcordPacific.Com (John Paul Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100
Date: 3 Feb 1997 19:07:18 -0800
Organization: Concord Pacific Developments Inc.
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In article <32f24b98.80574590@news.charm.net>,
Sean Rolinson <snowdog@charm.net> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>We are using the SMC9332DST's with no problem at all. Recently, I
>tried using their new Etherpower 10/100 card. I got a notice in the
>box that reads:
>
>Here is an excerpt:
>
>... This EtherPower 10/100 network card require the latest SMC network
>driver (SuperDisk v2.0 or later) because of its higher performance and
>added feature content. It will not operate with drivers provided with
>older EtherPower 10/100 network cards.
For some reason these same cards work in Linux 2.0.X with *no* change
in the driver. I guess it helps when someone from Digital who knows
what they're doing writes the ethernet drivers! (The SMC PCI cards use
Digital's chipset)
The dual port SMC cards also do not work in BSDI, even though the
BSDI web page claims that the EtherPower and EtherPower2 are supported.
This is really disappointing and I wish BSDI would get off their butts
and fix the SMC/Digital drivers. The DEC21140 is supposed to be one of
the better (ie faster, less CPU load) chipsets: Digital uses them in
their Alphas, Cisco uses them for their 100Mbps router ports, and
various kernel programmers claim the interface is clean (unlike some
crappy NIC chipsets, ie Intel).
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