From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 19 14:39:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22488 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:39:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22475 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01505; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810192137.OAA01505@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Galbraith cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , John Galbraith , Mike Smith , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:23:35 PDT." <199810192123.OAA02238@magpie.ece.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:37:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > >Does it have an NI TNT chip on it? The "old" NI GPIB cards used the TI > > >GPIB controller chip, and I don't think John's driver will work (well, > > >if at all) with that. > > > > > >There's actually four different NI cards; the really old NEC-based > > >ones, the TI based ones, the TI based ones with the GPIB accelerator > > >chip and the TNT based cards. > > > > I have developed the driver with two cards: one is a AT-GPIB/TNT and > the other is this really ancient AT-GPIB (1988) with a NEC7210 > (actually from NEC, not a clone) and a TURBO488 chip. I thought the > turbo chip was a National part, but maybe it is actually a TI. I have > the card at home and will have to check tonight. In any case, the > driver works with both cards. I took care not to use any extended > features introduced by National that aren't supported by the older > card. The really old ones, before they had the TURBO accelerator, are > not supported by my driver, and never will be unless somebody else > does it. No, the Turbo488 is an National Instruments job. I must have gotten the NEC and TI chips mixed up in my head. I don't have access to the old Natinst catalogs anymore, so I can't even check for my own sanity. > I have been sent PnP patches that have been incorporated into the > driver. I haven't tested them myself, because I don't have a PnP > card. Getting a PnP card to work wouldn't be hopeless, anyway. > Getting the PCI version to work would be hopeless. No more luck getting the MITE documentation I presume? 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message