From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 18:43:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00661 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00656 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA18042; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:12:20 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604300142.LAA18042@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development (fwd) To: gemohler@alpha1.phoenix.net (Geoff Mohler) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:12:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Geoff Mohler" at Apr 29, 96 11:58:18 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[