From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 11 19:34:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA14744 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:34:14 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA14733 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:34:10 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA16886; Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:32:51 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507120232.TAA16886@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD EISA ethercard support To: tomppa@fidata.fi Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 19:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507112254.BAA10468@zeta.fidata.fi> from "Tomi Vainio" at Jul 12, 95 01:54:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1533 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > You have talked about EISA ethernet cards. Is there any plans to add ^^^ > support for these cards? I have SMC 8232 which is SMC Ultra series > 32bit EISA busmaster which I like to use with FreeBSD. Not sure who ``you'' is being addressed to here, but since I am one of the guilty parties for talking about them I suppose a response is expected from ``me'' :-) ;-) I personally don't have any plans at all to add EISA ethernet card support to FreeBSD as all my EISA equipment has been removed from service and is awaiting either to be sold off in a fire sale, trashed, or donated to the FreeBSD Test Lab depending on just what it is and how many of them I have. I think that there are others here though that are either working on or trying to find time to work on some of these boards. Some how I doubt it is the SMC8232 as that is a 10MB/sec card, and there is not a lot of interest or need for EISA at those data rates, on the other hand the 100MB/sec cards we are talking about just plain can not run on an ISA bus so it is either PCI or EISA, and some folks don't want to replace completely functional EISA computers just to go 100MB/sec. I don't know what chip set is used on the SMC8232 so it may be a real easy one to do, or it may be a real bear. If it is one of the chips currently support on ISA or PCI it should be fairly easy to add support for it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD