From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 09:58:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA27173 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha1.phoenix.net (gemohler@alpha1.phoenix.net [199.3.232.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA27168 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by alpha1.phoenix.net; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/26Jan96-1253PM) id AA20542; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:58:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:58:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Geoff Mohler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:19:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Geoff Mohler To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development > Hi. > > I've worked with the Cubix equipment in the past on commucations > software applications under their SVR3 clone on their little Cubix > cubes. Say "Hi" to Mike in developer relations, if he's still > there from "Terry at Century Software". (I'm not still there 8-)). > > The hardware is not significantly different from most PC hardware, > and what you are calling a port is probably more properly just > a need for drivers to support some of their hardware. > > > The "AMD SCSI and 10bT controllers", are these by chance the AMD > PCNet (Am79C974) chips? Yes..you are correct. > The AMD PCNet chips "net" is a LANCE ethernet chip. The current > ethernet drivers work with this chip without modification, as long > as you pick the right IRQ and port addresses. What do I need to do to get BSD to detect this chipset..it cant find it by default. > The SCSI portion of this chip is an NCR 780(?) compatible chip... > I remember reading a post on one of the lists about a driver being > available for the SCSI portion, but I didn't save the thing. Most > uncharacteristic of me. 8-(. Thats ok..we can swap the SCSI 1G drives for IDE..not a problem. Just point me as to where I need to go, to get the Ethernet up. Thanks. G