From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 14:55:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19332 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 14:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.nugate.com (www.nugate.com [206.111.60.74] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19327 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 14:55:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neilson@www.nugate.com) Received: (from neilson@localhost) by www.nugate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02394; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 14:39:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 98 14:39:48 PST From: "D. Alex Neilson" To: damian cunniff , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Alex Neilson Subject: Re: 3COM NIC 3C905B-TX In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:51:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Can somebody mail me a driver for [3C905B-TX] Damian, The 3c905b card can be used by 2.2.6? I had one, couldn't get it to work, then noticed that the 3c905 was listed as supported, but there was no mention of the 3c905b. I even emailed the guy that wrote the 905 drive (Fred Gray [he's in the man page]) if b was supported, and he said he didn't write one, and hadn't touched the code in about a year. The man pages for vx(4) for 2.2.6 (my version anyways) say: The vx driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590 and 3c595 EtherLink III and Fast EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in 10 Mbps mode. The on-line man pages for 2.2.7 and 3.0-current show the same man page (without mention of 3c905b). I'm using plain 905s right now; linux has had the 905b driver for a while now which is what we were using that card for (see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html :-/). Oh wait: on page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/notes.html there's o Added full bus master DMA support for 3c900 and 3c905 adapters and added support for the 3c905B. [MERGED: Also in 2.2.8 and later releases on 2.2-STABLE branch] [...] 3Com 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL Well, looks like it's coming. Not sure if one can pop the driver code from the "2.2-STABLE branch" into one's 2.2.6 source tree and compile away--anyone? Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message