[geeks] Four-port PCI Ethernet?

Mike Meredith very at zonky.org
Tue Jul 6 13:54:06 CDT 2010


On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:21:46 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> So, does anyone know...
> 
> - Will a Sun PCI qfe work in PC hardware?

Yes. At one point my work machine running Linux used an old qfe. I
think there were a few odd complaints from the driver, but I think it
worked fine.

> - If so, will OpenBSD x86 talk to it?  (The hme is on the OpenBSD/i386
> HCL, but the qfe isn't.)

It's possible that it may be identified as four instances of a standard
PC NIC? Can't say for sure though.

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