From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Nov 20 03:21:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA23481 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 03:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA23471 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 03:21:44 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vQAio-000QqrC; Wed, 20 Nov 96 12:21 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id MAA10363; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:00:03 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611201100.MAA10363@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ??? In-Reply-To: <199611140802.AAA21387@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 14, 96 00:02:52 am" To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:00:02 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hardware Users) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes writes: >>> I am not only willing to hand carry them over to David, I will pay him >>> some reasonable fee to work on and fix the driver to support both the new >>> versions of the cards from SMC (SMC9332BDT) and the D-Link DFE-500TX. >>> >>> If David does not have the time, that offer extends to Matt Thomas >>> as well. (Except I'll have to FedX the cards to him :-)). >>> >>> The balls now in your court, I have made the offer of putting the hardware >>> and money in your hands to get some of this fixed.... >> >> And it's appreciated - I'll talk to David about this when I see him in >> Las Vegas on monday. Unfortunately, we're both going to be stuck at >> COMDEX manning the FreeBSD booth for all of next week, so don't be >> surprised if you don't hear anything back immediately. We're both >> going to be out of action for at least 10 days as a result of this >> miserable ordeal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwonderful conference. > > :-) > > Already taken care of, David now has a DFE-500TX rev C1, Kingston KNE100TX > and a Compex ENET100TX-PCI. Of these a quick look at things shows that > the DFE and KNE cards are using the same chips and shouldn't be too bad > to fix, the Compex is a tossed in thing I had laying around, and I don't > really care if it gets fixed or not. > > Lets give David a few days to see what he comes up with... Is anybody working on the 3C900? Like the original poster, I've been lumbered with a couple of these boards, supposedly "compatible with the 3C595". If not, can anybody give me some pointers, and I'll have a go at it myself. Greg