From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 12:49:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D166414DC3 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991219204705.NKYB15480.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:47:05 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11znGQ-0003Ru-00; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:49:10 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DMA bus mustering X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 19 Dec 1999 15:49:10 -0500 Message-ID: <87aen6u055.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Where could I read what DMA bus mastering means (as applied to networking card)? How would I know if a mobo supports DMA? What happens if using a card that uses DMA bus mastering, but the mobo doesn't support it? (will the card still work?) Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message