Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:55:07 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: ckwen <ckwen@eembox.ee.ncku.edu.tw>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fiber network adapter ? Message-ID: <199912080355.TAA22883@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:39:39 -0700
Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know freebsd 3.3 support fiber ethernet card ?
> > For instance, DFE-500FX ?
>
> wes@homer$ cd /usr/src/sys/pci
> wes@homer$ grep -i fddi *.c
> if_fpa.c: * DEC PDQ FDDI Controller; code for BSD derived operating systems
> if_fpa.c: * This module supports the DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller
> if_fpa.c: return "Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller";
> wes@homer$ man -k fddi
> fpa(4), fea(4) - Device Drivers for DEC FDDI Controllers
>
> Was that really so hard?
DFE-500FX isn't an FDDI card. It's a 100base-FX card.
He was even quite clear in his message that he was looking for
"fiber ethernet".
It's probably based on the Tulip (considering that the DFE-500TX was),
and should work with the `de' driver in both NetBSD and FreeBSD, and
possibly also the `tlp' driver in NetBSD (which is a rewritten-from-scratch
unified driver that supports the Tulip and the Tulip clone clips).
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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