Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:39:01 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pocket Ethernet Adaptor (Parallel) Message-ID: <0103010955190B.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <04b701c0a1ce$44c574e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <XFMail.010228075858.y3k@gti.net> <04b701c0a1ce$44c574e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2001, Doug Young wrote: > > It sounds like his NIC is the kind that plugs into the parallel port. Does > the NE2000 driver work for those, too? > Good question .... I couldn't find a mention of those in the archives. My > guess is the NE2000 driver doesn't work. > I know there are a few NICs that won't work from > the kernel config menu during install You might be correct, here <sigh> > I would have sworn the RealTek parallel ones don't normally get to OZ ... > maybe the one Brian has was brought in by someone from overseas Hah! Got you at last! :-) The PEA is a Genius LAN purchased in Adelaide from "Software Supplies" - BUT that was in 1993 or 4. The chipset is RTL8002. http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/ has the driver for the RTL8139, but not the RTL8002. A RTL8002 driver for Linux is listed on the scytl site (I got to it via ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/, using Netscape) but it is missing. I guess, given the .c and .h files the Linux driver could be compiled for FreeBSD. If so, they would be worth finding. I have had no luck so far. > RealTek company in Taiwan That's where my Genius LAN was made. > poke around a heap of laptop distributors. Worth a try I guess - particularly if they deal with second hand stuff. Problem is that PCMCIA (is that right?) has completely overtaken the laptop network market, so PEA's aren't needed any more. -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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