Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 17:59:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Aaron Hughes <aaronh@bind.com>" <aaronh@user1.bind.com> To: "D. Alex Neilson" <neilson@www.nugate.com> Cc: damian cunniff <cunniff@elvis.rowan.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alex Neilson <neilson@nugate.com> Subject: Re: 3COM NIC 3C905B-TX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.04.9811071758050.19034-100000@user1.bind.com> In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.4.910478388.neilson@www.nugate.com>
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It is in fact supported and you should be able to get it to work.. You may have to pla with the settings for base address and IRQ to get it up and running. What did the probe for devices show when you booted? On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, D. Alex Neilson wrote: > > 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 > - Aaron Hughes - For public PGP key: finger aaronh@bind.com - aaronh@bind.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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