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From: castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c90x or DEC 21x40?
Date: 12 Apr 1997 19:39:27 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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In-reply-to: nsayer@quack.kfu.com's message of 12 Apr 1997 17:38:28 GMT
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>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> writes:
Nick> Based on the description of the internals of each chip
Nick> involved, I would say to get the 21x4x _EVERY TIME_. The
Nick> Tulip is a great chip. The 3COM is just a warmed over 3C509.
Nick> Lots of people use the DEC chipset. Nobody but 3COM uses the
Nick> 3C chipset. 'nuff said.
The only complaint I would have is that the de driver which is in FreeBSD 2.1.5
and 2.2.1 does not appear to be compatible with the newer versions of the
DEC chipset. When I noted this before, someone sent me a newer version of
the driver which works great. I don't know why it didn't make it into
the recent release.