From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 22:37:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17542 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:37:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17532 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 22:37:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16027; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:37:29 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36468DA9.7F9A2B99@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 23:37:29 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Albrecht CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA EtherExpress Pro/100 supported? References: <13892.37693.738551.462846@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <36465E90.597D9CF5@softweyr.com> <13894.26684.886269.935910@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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