Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:34:52 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Walker, Scott" <WALKERSC@cibc.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about the DFE-530TX Message-ID: <19981110093452.A2919@matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091642380.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:43:24PM -0800 References: <19981105093444.A2722@matti.ee> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091642380.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > > "Walker, Scott" <WALKERSC@cibc.ca> wrote: > > > > > Does freebsd support the DFE-530TX 10/100 D-link PCI ethernet card? > > > > No. This card hasn't based on the Digital chip. > > .. but it is a PNIC chip and is therefore supported by the driver at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/PNIC/ > > This directory contains drivers for network adapters based on the > Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC fast ethernet controller chips, including the > following: > > - LinkSys LNE100TX > - NetGear FA310TX revision D1 > - Matrox Networks FastNIC 10/100 > - Recent D-Link 10/100baseTX adapters Well, that's what I believed also. Actually I tried PNIC driver and find out that _my_ DFE-530TX wasn't supported by Bill's PNIC driver. I mailed to Bill and got answer which says that DFE-530TX is based on VIA "Rhine" chipset. There's ongoing work to support that chipset but currently there's no driver. Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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