> I would like to know if the currently available Intel Fast Ethernet
>PCI NIC, the Pro 100+ is 100% backwards compatible with the previous
>Pro 100B.
"100% backward compatible" is an impossible standard. If you can detect a
change, it's not compatible.
That said, the 100+ is *very* compatible with the 100B.
It does incorporate a few new features, and additional registers to support
those features, but no new features are incompatible with common driver
operations.
Quote:> That is, using the existing drivers for the 100B in FreeBSD and in
>Windows NT 4.0 SP3, can I simply exchange the 100B with a 100+ ?
I don't use those systems, but my Linux driver "just worked" with the i82558
on the 100+. I did tweak it a message that reported the transceiver type,
but that was incidental.
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