From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 6 3:55: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348E837B418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:54:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id fA6BmZT90867; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Adriaan de Groot" , Subject: RE: Myson NIC / fet driver for 4.4? Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:48:34 -0800 Message-ID: <002a01c166b8$f6e98800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you sure that this isn't the 8139C+ chip? Yyves posted a driver for this Fri 11/2/01 12:23 AM on the freebsd-questions list. Do a search on a subject headig of "How to update driver?" Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Adriaan de >Groot >Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:50 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Myson NIC / fet driver for 4.4? > > >Hi all, > >I went to the store and asked for a rtl 8139 based NIC (I've since read >the comments in if_rl.c and am worried about my sanity). I got something >worse, which is the Myson TD-803. It's not recognized by the GENERIC >kernel, nor after some fiddling about with stuff from LINT. The PCI ID of >this thing is 1516:0803, and grepping for 1516 on the entire source tree >of 4.4-release turns up nothing relevant. > >I'd conclude with "this card is unsupported", except that the driver >diskette contains -- whoa -- drivers for all the Win flavors, and *source* >for linux and freebsd drivers. The linux driver is the same as the one (by >Donald Becker) that has shown up in recent kernels there AFAICT. The >FreeBSD driver has no copyright statement attached at all. > >So I've got sources, except they're labelled as "For FreeBSD 2.2 / 3.0", >and a casual attempt at building them in 4.4 failed with includes not >being found and many macros not defined. > >I've put the source files up at > > http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/freebsd/ > >and I've got two questions: > >-1) does somebody recognize that code? >0) is this driver already lurking somewhere in the source tree? >1) is there a porting-device-drivers-from-3.0-to-4.4 guide somewhere, so I >can port and test this driver myself? >2) does somebody else feel like porting it? > >A random sample of 1 store here in town shows that *all* their el-cheapo >NICs are based on this chipset, so it might be really relevant to get this >working for the low-end crowd. > > >[ade] > >-- >+------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ >+ Adriaan de Groot + Project: www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/frescos/ + >+ adridg@cs.kun.nl + + >+ Kamer A6020 tel. 024 3652272 + "Was dat nou Arabisch of Deens?" -- FD + > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message