Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???

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From
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
Date
20 Nov 1996 03:21:58
Subject
Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ???
Message-ID
199611201100.MAA10363@freebie.lemis.de


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Rodney W. Grimes writes:
>>> I am not only willing to hand carry them over to David, I will pay him
>>> some reasonable fee to work on and fix the driver to support both the new
>>> versions of the cards from SMC (SMC9332BDT) and the D-Link DFE-500TX.
>>>
>>> If David does not have the time, that offer extends to Matt Thomas
>>> as well. (Except I'll have to FedX the cards to him :-)).
>>>
>>> The balls now in your court, I have made the offer of putting the hardware
>>> and money in your hands to get some of this fixed....
>>
>> And it's appreciated - I'll talk to David about this when I see him in
>> Las Vegas on monday. Unfortunately, we're both going to be stuck at
>> COMDEX manning the FreeBSD booth for all of next week, so don't be
>> surprised if you don't hear anything back immediately. We're both
>> going to be out of action for at least 10 days as a result of this
>> miserable ordeal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwonderful conference.
>
> :-)
>
> Already taken care of, David now has a DFE-500TX rev C1, Kingston KNE100TX
> and a Compex ENET100TX-PCI. Of these a quick look at things shows that
> the DFE and KNE cards are using the same chips and shouldn't be too bad
> to fix, the Compex is a tossed in thing I had laying around, and I don't
> really care if it gets fixed or not.
>
> Lets give David a few days to see what he comes up with...

Is anybody working on the 3C900? Like the original poster, I've been
lumbered with a couple of these boards, supposedly "compatible with
the 3C595". If not, can anybody give me some pointers, and I'll have
a go at it myself.

Greg


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