Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:48:34 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Adriaan de Groot" <adridg@cs.kun.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Myson NIC / fet driver for 4.4? Message-ID: <002a01c166b8$f6e98800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111061029360.1467-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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Are you sure that this isn't the 8139C+ chip? Yyves posted a driver for this Fri 11/2/01 12:23 AM on the freebsd-questions list. Do a search on a subject headig of "How to update driver?" Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Adriaan de >Groot >Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:50 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Myson NIC / fet driver for 4.4? > > >Hi all, > >I went to the store and asked for a rtl 8139 based NIC (I've since read >the comments in if_rl.c and am worried about my sanity). I got something >worse, which is the Myson TD-803. It's not recognized by the GENERIC >kernel, nor after some fiddling about with stuff from LINT. The PCI ID of >this thing is 1516:0803, and grepping for 1516 on the entire source tree >of 4.4-release turns up nothing relevant. > >I'd conclude with "this card is unsupported", except that the driver >diskette contains -- whoa -- drivers for all the Win flavors, and *source* >for linux and freebsd drivers. The linux driver is the same as the one (by >Donald Becker) that has shown up in recent kernels there AFAICT. The >FreeBSD driver has no copyright statement attached at all. > >So I've got sources, except they're labelled as "For FreeBSD 2.2 / 3.0", >and a casual attempt at building them in 4.4 failed with includes not >being found and many macros not defined. > >I've put the source files up at > > http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/freebsd/ > >and I've got two questions: > >-1) does somebody recognize that code? >0) is this driver already lurking somewhere in the source tree? >1) is there a porting-device-drivers-from-3.0-to-4.4 guide somewhere, so I >can port and test this driver myself? >2) does somebody else feel like porting it? > >A random sample of 1 store here in town shows that *all* their el-cheapo >NICs are based on this chipset, so it might be really relevant to get this >working for the low-end crowd. > > >[ade] > >-- >+------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ >+ Adriaan de Groot + Project: www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/frescos/ + >+ adridg@cs.kun.nl + + >+ Kamer A6020 tel. 024 3652272 + "Was dat nou Arabisch of Deens?" -- FD + > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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