[geeks] Four-port PCI Ethernet?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/06/10 14:54, Mike Meredith wrote:
> 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.

I'd expect that ...   I was wondering if it'd show up as four hmes.  A
dual-EEPro shows up as two separate fxp interfaces.

(The curious thing is that the two onboard EEPros show up as fxp0 and
fxp3, while the dual-EEPro shows up as fxp1 and fxp2.  I'm surprised
that the two onboard EEPros have different PCI version IDs, and thus do
not show up as fxp0 and fxp1.  It's even more surprising that their PCI
IDs are different enough that the PCI card shows up *in between* them.)


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