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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Support for 3com Etherlink XL aka 3c900 aka boomerang? Date: 5 Jan 1997 12:13:08 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5ap20k$aaa@cynic.portal.ca> References: <5aokj0$9ud$1@Illuminatus.MZ.Rhein-Main.DE> <x7dloa8dlg5.fsf@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5083 In article <x7dloa8dlg5.fsf@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote: >The existing 3c509/3c590 driver works with the 3c900, except that it's >not detected at boot time. Actually, you may need some other fixes that are needed. The 3c595 and 3c905 both support FDDI size packets (4500 bytes or so), and the addition of this support can break things if you send a lot of large Ethernet packets (1000-1500 bytes) back to back. I don't recall whether or not the 3c590 and the 3c900 have this problem. There is a patch available from my web page <http://www2.portal.ca/~cjs> for NetBSD 1.2 that will fix this. Much better support for the 3c59x and 3c90x cards should be appearing in 1.3, as there's active development going on on the card right now. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.