>
> The integrated RTL8139 NIC appears in the list of machine-

looks motherboard manufacturer saves few cents to put sh..t instead of
normal network adapter.

> independent PCI drivers (I think, I'm not sure what the BL/
> CL suffixes mentioned in the board's spec signify).
>
> I /think/ the main difference between the FW37 (whose spec.
> I have in front of me) and the FW37e is support for the 1.2
> GHz Celeron's AGTL bus.  I'd welcome comments from people
> who've used VIA C3, or newer Intel Celeron processors with
> NetBSD.
>
> Regards,
>   - Andy Ball.
>

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Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.