From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 8 16:43:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 618) id EB02737B422; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver In-Reply-To: from "scanner@jurai.net" at "May 8, 2001 07:21:17 pm" To: scanner@jurai.net Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010508234351.EB02737B422@hub.freebsd.org> From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Is there a POC we can all send thanks to for supplying the neccessary HW > and doco? Since they seem to be a more friendly company then Intel it > would do us well IMO to thank them for it. Actually, it was my contact at Intel who put me in touch with the right people at SMC. As for the documentation, National has all the manuals for their stuff online: http://www.national.com/ds/DP/DP83820.pdf http://www.national.com/ds/DP/DP83821.pdf http://www.national.com/ds/DP/DP83861.pdf Those are the controller and PHY manuals, respectively. (The 83821 is actually the same as the 83820, but 32-bit only. I think Addtron is the only one that uses the 32-bit version.) Note that the DP83861 PHY seems strikingly similar to the LSI Logic L80600 PHY. At least, the manuals look a lot alike. Don't ask me why, I just work here. That said, Intel also agreed to let D-Link release the LXT1001 manual to me, so I have that too. Both D-Link and SMC sell cards using both these chips; SMC got me their cards first, so I'm using them for my testing. I sent a confirmation of receipt and thank you note to the SMC people today. I'm not sure if I should be posting their e-mail addresses all over the lists though. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message