From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 1 09:24:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA07356 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:24:45 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA07350 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:24:44 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA25003; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:19:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509011619.JAA25003@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:19:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: davidg@root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199509010545.WAA00995@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Aug 31, 95 10:45:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 777 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Yeah, I just looked at the driver and saw the programmed IO cruft in there > to deal with the novell cards. Bummer. Someone mentioned that some of the > cards really do have shared memory and can run just like the SMC and 3COM. > Do you know anything about this? These aren't real NE2000's, they're "compatible with extensions". I know Addtron makes one; I don't know anyone else. Since the card emulates either an NE2k or a 8013, most people just run in in 8013 mode. The NE2100 is a different beast and runs and amd chipset (I think), not the standard NE2k chipset at all. In UnixWare, the thing has a totally seperate driver. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.