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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 3C590 PCI LAN Support Date: 23 Feb 1996 23:34:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4gliv3$47c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ght8e$bre@news.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Ehritz) writes: > I just finished assembling a PC with a 3COM 3C590 PCI Lan card. The > normal boot kernel on the install Floppy tells me, that he has no > driver for this type of lan card. There's a driver for it available in -current (/sys/pci/if_vx*, don't forget to update /sys/conf/files when importing it), it does drop cleanly back into 2.1R. Alas, it's not doing bus-master DMA, so it's CPU consumption is rather high. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)