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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI vs FreeBSD
Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:53:25 -0800
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <4f86tp$5ki@atlas.uniserve.com>,
Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> wrote:

>  If that were only so.  You shoud say that BSDI supports different things.
>BSDI does not have support for:
>
>  * Adaptec 2742, 2842, 2940
>  * No PCI ethernet cards at all: including DEC based cards which FreeBSD
>supports
>  * No 100mbs ethernet support at all, including DEC and Intel cards which
>FreeBSD supports

Heh ... that's not what my BSD/OS 2.1 box says :-)  I guess I could have
read it wrong, but I'm pretty certain they include Matt Thomas's DEC
ethernet and FDDI drivers as well as the Adaptec 2940.

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