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From: castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c90x or DEC 21x40?
Date: 13 Apr 1997 00:33:33 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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>>>>> "Castor" == Castor Fu <castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU> writes:
    Castor> The only complaint I would have is that the de driver
    Castor> which is in FreeBSD 2.1.5 and 2.2.1 does not appear to be
    Castor> compatible with the newer versions of the DEC chipset.
    Castor> When I noted this before, someone sent me a newer version
    Castor> of the driver which works great.  I don't know why it
    Castor> didn't make it into the recent release.

Since I've already received one query about where to look, the author of
the de driver, Matt Thomas,  maintains a web site,

	http://www.3am-software.com

where he describes the machinations required to make the latest incarnation
of his driver work under FreeBSD.  Apparently he's adopted the if_media
extensions to the network interface structures which were proposed by the 
BSDI folks to handle the vagaries of half/full and 10/100 base T networks.

Many thanks to Matt for providing this to the community at large!

	-castor