Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:49:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: AMD PCnet - Home (AM79C978KC) (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990529154753.2903A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Forwarding this on to -hackers since -questions didn't seem to solicit much response. I've picked up two of the cards, but don't have the technical documentation for them so the best i can do is add them to the list of cards in the driver and have them probed appropriately. I'm in the process of searching the AMD site for the documentation but haven't found it yet--any pointers would be great (or alternatively, just code :) Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:38:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Reply-To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: AMD PCnet - Home (AM79C978KC) I recently heard about the "Diamond HomeFree" network cards that provide an ethernet interface running on a traditional in-home phone system. They supposedly situation an ethernet-style layer in one of the free frequency ranges, and make use of an AMD chip to do this (mentioned in title). I note that we have an AMD drive that, according to the 3.2 release notes, supports 'AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)'. These numbers are pretty similar -- does anyone know if the driver supports this card? If not, anyone have information on whom I might contact at AMD to get specs to modify our driver to support it (I assume that it probably has a prety similar interface). The AMD chip is the only one, pretty much, on the PCI card so I assume it's the only relevant component. I head in this direction as I just discovered the wall I planned to drop UTP down to get to our ADSL modem in the basement is not going to be happy holding cables :-), and there are existing phone lines all over the place. The propaganda on the back says it can handle up to a megabit, which is pretty decent; the bumf also claims it coexists happily with existing phone service and xDSL at the same time. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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