From owner-freebsd-atm Tue Jan 29 13:43: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-atm@freebsd.org Received: from valu.uninet.ee (valu.uninet.ee [194.204.34.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31C337B42A for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:42:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by valu.uninet.ee (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1F0B936402; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:28 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by valu.uninet.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCBD32619; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:28 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:28 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik To: Christophe =?ISO-8859-1?B?UHLpdm90YXV4?= Cc: Harti Brandt , freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Fore and VPI>0 In-Reply-To: <20020118132054.0a8a7153.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-atm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Christophe Prévotaux wrote: > And to answer Taavi Talvik's comments , I think it is a catch 22 situation > there can only be more supported hardware if people use ATM in FreeBSD and they > can only use it if there are more hardware supported. > > The reason is simple IMHO, many people will look at what IS currently supported > under FreeBSD in order to purchase adequate hardware. Of course I am talking > about users and not develloper ,because not every user of FreeBSD is also > a develloper. Now I finally got Efficent 3060 driver to working condition. There is still some work to do: to clean up kld unloading and VC deletion to separate Alcatel MTC-20316 (and similiar PHY) into mii bus driver as there are other PCI cards which can use this (I have 3Com cards with IDT77225 SAR and alcatel ADSL) and I probably have to make port of this driver as alcatel firmware is actually axtracted from windows driver and can't legally distribute it (after 2 years of unsuccessful discussions with efficient and alcatel I gave up) Still, after 2-3 weeks there will be another ATM card driver for freebsd available in some form. PS. Harti, maybe you can convince core team to include your netgraph patches for NATM in current? best regards, taavi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-atm" in the body of the message