From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 7 11:23:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA04407 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:23:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (dreamlabs.dreaming.org [198.96.119.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04383 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 11:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mitayai@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA13713; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:22:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 14:22:32 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: "Garrett A. Wollman" cc: James FitzGibbon , hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter? In-Reply-To: <9601011902.AA12485@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 14:02:57 -0500 > From: Garrett A. Wollman > To: James FitzGibbon > Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter? > > [BTW: PLEASE don't post to multiple mailing-lists. It irritates those > people who read more than one.] > > < said: > > > Has anyone got support for a Cabletron E20xx adapter working under 2.1? > > Last I touched these things, they were based on the National 83C90 > chip, but used a proprietary bus interface that Cabletron would not > explain to anyone. That was three years ago; things may have gotten > better now. > > -GAWollman > > -- I kinda got it working as a NE2000 under Linux with a few twists... might want to find Linux Docs on it to look at what they say. Oh, and James: if that is my old Cabletron card i accidentally left at IO, i burned it out long ago and you'll never get it to work. :) -Mit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at DreamLabs Community Information Network Toronto/Peterborough/Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Web: http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai IRC: Mitayai Email: mitayai@dreaming.org