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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 10:05:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509100056.12090A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <19980509121442.51507@mi.uni-koeln.de>

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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Stefan Esser wrote:

> > 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)

No problem.. I knew there was no support for the SCSI devices when I set
the box up, so I threw in the appropriate Adaptec controller to begin
with. :-)  This thread really started because I mistakenly thought the
ThunderLAN driver might work with another older Compaq NIC I have. I
wasn't aware that is was solely for a newer breed of cards Compaq was
using.

-- Chris Dillon
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