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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SMC EtherPower II (SMC9432TX) NIC support Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 14:17:38 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3387BD62.1935@OntheNet.com.au> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41749 I've just been handed an SMC EtherPower II 10/100 NIC (9432TX). FreeBSD reports the Vendor Id as 0x10b8 (I presume that this is SMC's code) and Device Id of 0x0005. This card does _NOT_ use the DEC Ethernet chipset (21x4x) but uses an SMC ic instead! Has anyone else come across this NIC and is there a driver either available or in the works? Tony