From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 17:30:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E128C14BDC for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-71.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.71] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA19665; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:28:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C72D39.FECD29DF@airnet.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:28:41 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > > I know there are drivers for the WaveLan card, but I'm looking at going > > even slower (256Kb!). > Why do you wnat to do this? If for bandwidht limiting you need look no > further than 'dummynet'. It's not a bandwidth issue; it's a speed issue. I'm trying to find an extremely cheap way to get data in and out of a PC. I've got the National Semiconductor application sheets for the 8392(?) and plan on using one "cut in half": Half duplex, but split into seperate TX and RX lines. I'm also looking at a scaleable way to go up or down in speed, without dealing with async... A layer two device if you will. -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message