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Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:14:42 +0200
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>,
        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>
Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>,
        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver
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On 1998-05-06 13:18 -0500, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> writes:
> > 
> >  Chris> to get that to work.. Mind sharing those patches? :-)  I have the onboard
> >  Chris> SCSI and possibly a "Compaq WIDE SCSI" controller I would like to get to
> > 
> > Is this a Compaq RAID controller? If so, try the driver at:
> >   http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/
> 
> No. Now that I'm at work, i can more specifically say that it is the
> "32-Bit Fast-Wide SCSI2/E Controller", which uses the NCR53c825 and a
> Motorola chip of some kind.  A closer look at the embedded chips show that
> the SCSI controller is a NCR53c710, and the Ethernet is the AMD PCNet-32. 
> They are not a combo as I once thought for some reason. 

The Ethernet chip should be supported by the Lance driver.

In order to support the ncr53c710, changes are required in
the NCR driver, which did not seem to make sense several 
years ago, and seems to do much less so, today ... (Sorry)

Regards, STefan

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