Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 23:37:29 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA EtherExpress Pro/100 supported? Message-ID: <36468DA9.7F9A2B99@softweyr.com> References: <13892.37693.738551.462846@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <36465E90.597D9CF5@softweyr.com> <13894.26684.886269.935910@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Bruce Albrecht wrote:
>
> Wes Peters writes:
> > Bruce Albrecht wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this NIC supported by FreeBSD? If so, which driver. If not, does
> > > anyone have any suggestions as to which driver would be a good choice
> > > to use as a base?
> >
> > Yes, it is; it is probably the preferred ethernet driver for FreeBSD
> > these days. The driver name is fxp.
> >
> > Questions like 'is xxx supported on FreeBSD' are more suitable for the
> > "questions" mail list, so I've directed replies there.
>
> The fxp driver is located in sys/pci/if_fxp.c, which is why I asked
> this question. The card in question is ISA, not PCI, and I didn't see
> anything is sys/i386/isa that referenced the Intel 82557 chipset. If,
> as I suspect, the driver for the PCI card is incapable of driving the
> ISA card, I'm interested in pointers for modifying another ISA network
> driver to support this card, like "if_ZZZ.c is an archetypical ISA
> network driver, start with it, but look at the if_fxp driver too". To
> me, that sounds more like a topic for freebsd-net, not -questions.
You must mean the Pro/10 then, there isn't an ISA Pro/100. The Pro/10
and Pro/10+ are supported by the ex device driver. Poking around in
/usr/share/man/man4/i386 should be very helpful.
As I said before, "is xxx supported on FreeBSD" type questions are best
asked in the -questions newsgroup, not in -net. This is a device driver
issue; the -net mailing list is for "Discussions of networking in general
and TCP/IP source code in particular." (This is the Majordomo charater
for the list.) This usage has typically been viewed as the "upper"
layers of the network stack(s); device drivers are a hardware issue more
appropriate for -questions and -hardware.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36468DA9.7F9A2B99>