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Date:      10 Nov 1998 14:16:14 +0100
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ISA EtherExpress Pro/100 supported?
Message-ID:  <xzpg1brzo0x.fsf@gnipahellir.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Eivind Eklund's message of "Mon, 9 Nov 1998 15:14:58 %2B0100"
References:  <13892.37693.738551.462846@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <36465E90.597D9CF5@softweyr.com> <13894.26684.886269.935910@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <19981109151458.50653@follo.net>

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Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 09:57:48PM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
> > The fxp driver is located in sys/pci/if_fxp.c, which is why I asked
> > this question.  The card in question is ISA, not PCI, and I didn't see
> > anything is sys/i386/isa that referenced the Intel 82557 chipset.  If, 
> > as I suspect, the driver for the PCI card is incapable of driving the
> > ISA card, I'm interested in pointers for modifying another ISA network 
> > driver to support this card, like "if_ZZZ.c is an archetypical ISA
> > network driver, start with it, but look at the if_fxp driver too".  To 
> > me, that sounds more like a topic for freebsd-net, not -questions.
> Check the if_ie.c driver, which is a driver for an ISA Intel
> Etherexpress.  I don't know if it is for the _right_ ISA Intel
> Etherexpress, though.

No. The undocumented ex driver may have a chance of working, but the
ie driver only supports some very old 10 Mbps EtherExpress cards.

It would help if Bruce told us what chipset his adapter uses.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no

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