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From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Novell Ethercard
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Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 16:40:29 +0000
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In article <2344357a@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de>,
Patrick M.Hausen  <Patrick_M.Hausen@p128.f151.n5020.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
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>From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
>
>j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>
>>Jerome Kaidor <jerryk@best.com> wrote:
>
>>>   *  Does the "normal" install kernel include NE1500/NE2100 support?
>
>>I don't think it's supported at all.  If it's a Lance, the biggest
>>chance is the lnc0 driver.  (I think it's still under development
>>however.)
>
>It _is_ supported by Paul Richards' is0 driver. Works great.

Well, if you're system is earlier than 2.0 then use is0, if it's later
than 2.0 use lnc0. In either case we definately do support the
NE1500/NE2100 cards.

In fact I'm pretty confident that FreeBSD has support for all AMD
chipset (Lance, PCnet-ISA, PCnet-ISA+, PCnet-32 and PCnet-PCI) based
ethernet cards.
-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/
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