Subject: Re: can anyone recommend...
To: Bartholomew Niswonger <bniswong@midway.uchicago.edu>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/10/1996 18:07:22
On Sat, 9 Mar 96 23:21:08 CST
Bartholomew Niswonger <bniswong@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an ethernet card for my VLB i486 here? I
> currently have a 3c501 card which seems to not be cutting it, at all.
> I have been recommended a d-link card (the dl500 sounds nice) but from
> what I understand, d-link cards are not supported, is this true? Do
> people have a preference for smc over 3com? Please respond to me
> personally, and I will post a summary if there is any interest.
>
SMC cards are cool in NetBSD, I use this:
ed0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff irq 9: address 00:00:c0:00:fb:aa, type SMC8216/SMC8216C (16-bit) aui
There are other cards, From SMC that work well, like the DEC based ones.
Neil
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