From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 7 19:56:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D80514F9F for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA22883; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 19:55:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912080355.TAA22883@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Wes Peters Cc: ckwen , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fiber network adapter ? Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:55:07 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:39:39 -0700 Wes Peters 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message