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From: cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI cards supported by 2.1 release
Date: 12 Jul 1996 03:25:50 GMT
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In article <4rugg4$5ho@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Ulf Schmidt <us@microtronic.de> wrote:
>
>> I have a similar question: What 10/100 Mbit cards are supported _during_
>> the installation process of FreeBSD, so I can install via ftp?
>
>DEC 21040-based cards.  The only 10/100 card that springs to my mind
>right now is the SMC EtherPower 10/100, but i assume there are more
>(at least from Digital itself, one should think :).

Kingston Technologies makes a couple of cards based on this device;
they work fine with NetBSD, FreeBSD and Linux.  Plus, they seem to be
running some kind of promotion, at least in the US; we paid USD $50
each from a local retailer, even in bulk packs...

  --jh