From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 29 12:19:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04115 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04104; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA20566; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:18:52 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:18:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199704291918.VAA20566@bitbox.follo.net> From: Eivind Eklund To: Stefan Esser CC: afuchs@totum.plaut.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Stefan Esser's message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:32:17 +0200 Subject: Re: Compaq Integrated Netflex Ethernet Card (fwd) References: <19970429203217.10037@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Apr 29, Alexander Fuchsstadt wrote: > > Does anybody know about a compatible freeBSD-driver for the Compaq > > Integrated Netflex Ethernet Card? > > It's an ethernet card integrated on some newer Pentium 166 Compaq boards > > which are shiped with a pci Matrox videocard and an Adaptec 2940 > > scsi-controler (mounted both in pci-slots). > > Standard answer: Send a verbose boot message log, > and we'll be able to find out what kind of chip > that is, without the need to buy such a box just > for that purpose :) > > Compaq used Lance compatible chips, before, which > are automatically attached by FreeBSD 2.x and newer. Not for anything lower than 2.1.6, at least. Compaq use some variant of PCI 2, and wasn't detected without kernel patches until at least 2.1.6, possibly 2.1.7. I've run one of those cards since 2.1.0 - work quite OK. (Reception errors on a moderately loaded Ethernet about 5 times a day, causing a retransmitted packet. About 1MB/s for SMB transfers - quite OK :) This was the old NetFlex controllers, on the ProSignia 300 in this case. Eivind.