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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 03:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
To:        bsdx@looksharp.net
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Supporting an "A.T.I." pnp PCNet ISA-II card
Message-ID:  <20000510104134.897A737B59C@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005100141170.33116-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> (message from Adam on Wed, 10 May 2000 01:48:36 -0400 (EDT))

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>Hello, I have come across two network cards that I would like to use with
>FreeBSD.  They have TP and fibre interfaces on them; I grabbed them for
>free just for the novelty of having a nic with fibre on it :)  But at this
>point I am only interested in getting the twisted pair portion to
>work.  Under FreeBSD 5-current of a few weeks ago at most, pnp detects it
>but the lnc driver doesnt seem to pick it up.  I barely know diddly about
>C but if it looked like I could throw some ID's in a file and recompile I
>would have tried.  It doesn't look so easy it seems :)  Thus I am going
>for people more experienced.  Any assistance in getting this working would
>be appreciated.  Thanks!

The chip ID is in there already and it matches the datasheet.

It doesn't look as if the lnc driver is able to do PNP.

Robert Swindells



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