From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 11:19:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.geoworks.com (ns.geoworks.com [12.25.181.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398FC37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisn@geoworks.com) Received: from caraptorOUT.geoworks.com (CAraptor [12.25.181.5]) by ns.geoworks.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA27176 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bass.geoworks.com by caraptorOUT.geoworks.com via smtpd (for ns.geoworks.com [12.25.181.10]) with SMTP; 10 May 2001 18:20:20 UT Received: from Gwia_Dom-Message_Server by smtp.geoworks.com with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 10 May 2001 11:18:24 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:18:15 -0700 From: "Chris Neustrup" To: Subject: More ethernet interfaces Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks to answers from people on this list, I've gotten my ethernet = interface working to my local lan. I now would like to try some other = boards that I have that are different/better: 1. I don't find the specific board listed in the LINT or other places that = describe what ethernet boards are supported. Specifically an SMC 8216C. = There are a few other SMC boards listed, but most support seems to be for = 3com boards. I've also gotten some Intel boards that are not listed. I think the = answer here may be the chip set that the board is based on. If this is = the case then where can I find chip sets corresonded with the ethernet = driver? 2. How do I get the parameters (IRQ/mem/I/O) for these boards to build = into the kernel? They are no longer jumpered on the board and are done = in software. So do I ignore the problem and let the dirver init code = probe and do the dirty work? 3. Is there any concerted effort anywhere to build a driver/manual/schemat= ic database for these or even more broadly any PC boards in computers? I = believe that microsoft has a database of over 10,000 boards. Is there any = project to gather this information for the open source community? I = believe that this may entail some sort of intellectual property issues, = but creative transcription may be very useful here. Peace, Chris --- Chris Neustrup chrisn@geoworks.com 510/814-5878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message