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From: rcarter@best.com (Russell Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100
Date: 22 Aug 1995 22:21:52 -0700
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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950822214622.11137A-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>,
Gary Jackson  <garyj@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>I seem to recall that SMC is now using the DEC 21041 chip in their 
                                                ^^^^^
You are sure that it is not the 21140?  The 6 cards I have work fine.
Though one is half as fast. Very interesting.

Russell Carter
Pentium Workstation Clusters
http://www.geli.com

>EtherPower 10/100 boards, and that chip is not supported by FreeBSD 
>2.0.5.  Is there any truth to this?
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