> 
> On Thu, 16 May 1996 21:16:08 +0200 (MET DST) 
>  Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz> wrote:
> 
>  > Will SMC 8434T (Etherpower *dual channel* busmaster, 32bit PCI) work
>  > with NetBSD (1.1 or -current) ? And SMC 8432BT (Etherpower combo, 32bit PCI) ?
> 
> Can you tell us more about the card?  I think the SMC PCI cards have DEC 
> ethernet chips on them ... maybe it's like the other DEC multiport cards 
> I've heard about (that are ethernet and pci->pci beidge, and the 
> additional ethernets behind the bridge ... all on a card...)
> 
> might just try plugging it into a PCI NetBSD system and crossing your 
> fingers ... (there's actually a good chance that it will work...)
> 

Well, I've got the SMC8432 Ether Power PCI card working in my system.
As far as I am concerned its fast and reliable. It never has given me
a problem so far. Can't really give you any indication on speed since
all the other ethernet interfaces are 8 and 16 bit cards. A data
transfer rate of 750kbytes/sec has been observed between a
AXPpci33/SMC8432BT and P100/16bit ethernet card.

This is an extract from dmesg:

de0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:63:6e:d5
de0: interrupting at ISA irq 9
de0: enabling Thinwire/BNC port

cheerio Berndt

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