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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:12:20 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gemohler@alpha1.phoenix.net (Geoff Mohler)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Development (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199604300142.LAA18042@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960429115813.17811A-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> from "Geoff Mohler" at Apr 29, 96 11:58:18 am

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Geoff Mohler stands accused of saying:
>  
> > The AMD PCNet chips "net" is a LANCE ethernet chip.  The current
> > ethernet drivers work with this chip without modification, as long
> > as you pick the right IRQ and port addresses.
> 
> What do I need to do to get BSD to detect this chipset..it cant find it 
> by default.

You'll need to boot with the '-v' option, and notice what address and
IRQ the PCI probe detects the chip at, and then boot again with '-c'
and configure the 'lnc' driver to match.

> > The SCSI portion of this chip is an NCR 780(?) compatible chip...
> > I remember reading a post on one of the lists about a driver being
> > available for the SCSI portion, but I didn't save the thing.  Most
> > uncharacteristic of me.  8-(.
> 
> Thats ok..we can swap the SCSI 1G drives for IDE..not a problem.

As long as disk performance isn't an issue; I presume for routers it's
not 8)

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