From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 8 18:54:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA05571 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 18:54:52 -0700 Received: from locust.cic.net (pauls@locust.cic.net [192.131.22.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA05565 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 18:54:51 -0700 Received: (from pauls@localhost) by locust.cic.net (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id VAA09591; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:49:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 21:49:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Southworth To: Gary Palmer cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMC 9232 EISA ``Fast'' Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: <12701.802652714@westhill.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > Does anyone know if the SMC 9232 EISA 100Mb/sec ethernet card is > compatabile with FreeBSD in any way? We've got a machine here, which > is needed to do WORM support, which can't be used on the ethernet at > it's new location as it doesn't see the card :-( Hi Gary. I successfully procured some of the engineering specs (and cards) from SMC a couple months ago (which David has). Unfortunately the 9232 was not among them, nor was the 8033W (twin-channel EISA 10Mb/s card). It was my understanding that they were willing to cough up the specs for the Elite (and Elite/Ultra and EZ) cards, and for the DEC-based cards, but for a number of the more proprietary cards they wanted non-disclosure. Maybe someone else has had better luck, but to my knowledge the specs for those cards are not immediately forthcoming. I think we did pretty well to get what we got. You might take a gander at the current SMC support in Linux to see if someone "over there" got specs. If the gods smiled on Donald Becker he might have the needed goods. Last I knew he had succeeded in procuring specs for the new 3com cards and was getting busy with drivers. My success with SMC came after a couple faxed typed letters on company letterhead extolling the virtues of free operating systems and telling them how popular this stuff was, then followed up by a few months of polite and diplomatic phone calls and email where I tried to sound very much like I was wearing a tie. Not too hard really. If you want the contacts I will give them to you. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net