Support for 3C996-SX? Or 3C985(b)-SX?

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote:
 > Hi
 > 
 > I'm about to buy a PCI 1000-SX network card, looking on eBay I've  
 > found both 3C996-SX and 3C985(b)-SX cards.
 > Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/hardware- 
 > i386.html#ETHERNET I can find "3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)", but  
 > not the SX?
 > However, on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware- 
 > i386.html#ETHERNET I can see "3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T".
 > So, has the -SX support been removed or something?
 > From the if_bge.c changelog (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ 
 > src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c) I found this:
 > 

If my memory serve me right bge(4) supports 3Com 996SX.
I think I've used the 996SX to make bge(4) work on sparc64.

 > Commit message by wpaul
 > > Lastly, teach the driver how to recognize a 3c996B-SX by checking
 > > the hardware config word in the EEPROM in order to detect the media.
 > > We attach 5701 fiber cards correctly now, but I haven't verified that
 > > they send/receive packets yet since I don't have a second fiber
 > > interface at home. (I know that fiber 5700 cards work, so I'm
 > > keeping my fingers crossed.)
 > 
 > But this is from 4 years ago so.. not pretty recent and no followup  
 > in the log.
 > 
 > So, is it supported or not? :)
 > 
 > Also i found some 3c985(b) cards on eBay, a bit more expensive ($10  
 > or so..), but this uses the ti driver instead of bge. And from what I  
 > can see this driver does not support ALTQ. However, im not quite sure  

I'm not sure Max Laier(mlaier@) already made a ALTQ patch for ti(4).
If you can test ti(4) on your box I can write a ALTQ patch for ti(4).

 > i will need it anyway, since I will runt VLAN interface ontop of the  
 > device (and both bge and ti supports vlan), and vlan does not support  
 > altq anyway (which is kind of boring, any plans for it?)
 > 
 > So, any suggestions? Which card should I choose? Or some other  
 > popular card in the same price range (ebay price range that is..)?
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > 
 > Johan Str?m
 > Stromnet
 > johan at stromnet.se
 > http://www.stromnet.se/
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon