From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 15:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEE837B718 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-11.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.140]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29437 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:57:15 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: Re: Pocket Ethernet Adaptor (Parallel) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:39:01 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain References: <04b701c0a1ce$44c574e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <04b701c0a1ce$44c574e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103010955190B.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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