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Date:      Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:21:42 +0100
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 lmc.4 src/sys/conf NOTES  filessrc/sys/dev/lmc if_lmc.c if_lmc_common.c  if_lmc_fbsd3.cif_lmc_media.c if_lmcioctl.h if_lmcvar.h
Message-ID:  <3FD3B605.D3F561EB@freebsd.org>
References:  <200312070405.hB745KVd015543@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> imp         2003/12/06 20:05:20 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/conf             NOTES files
>   Removed files:
>     share/man/man4       lmc.4
>     sys/dev/lmc          if_lmc.c if_lmc_common.c if_lmc_fbsd3.c
>                          if_lmc_media.c if_lmcioctl.h if_lmcvar.h
>   Log:
>   Continue to remove drivers that don't compile and haven't compiled in
>   a long time: lmc The LAN Media Corp PCI WAN driver based on tulip.
>   This driver hasn't compiled for 3 years since the PCI compat shims
>   were removed, and Lan Media appears to have gone out of business.
>   These cards appear to be rare (a recent search of ebay had no hits).
> 
>   Should someone wish to revive this driver, submitting patches to make
>   it compile plus a testing report will bring it back.

They got bought by a company called SBE (www.sbei.net) and this card
is still produced.  I've got a couple of them running on FreeBSD 4.8.
The updated driver from their site works fine there.  Dunno about 5.x.
Maybe I'll have a look at it some day...

-- 
Andre



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