Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 19:15:26 -0500 (EST) From: Wankle Rotary Engine <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Support for SMC8432 PCI ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199502090015.TAA05203@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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The image lab here at the CTR just received two Gateway 2000 Pentium
PCI systems (my understanding is that they plan to install MPEG-encoder
boards in them for a project of some kind). Apparently one of these systems
will have both a 1-GIG IDE drive and a a 1-GIG SCSI, and one of the guys
in the image department says he wouldn't mind trying to install FreeBSD on
on a partition of one of those drives. (We haven't installed the SCSI
adapter yet, so I'm not sure about when or if I'll get to do this -- stay
tuned).
Anyway, both machines came with SMC8432BT (10baseT and BNC) ethernet
adapters pre-installed (also Windows for Workgroups -- blech!). The 8432's
are PCI cards. I'm wondering what the chances are that FreeBSD will be
able to use these things. Since I had the boot floppy from the Feb 2nd
snapshot handy, I tried to boot the system with it and while it successfuly
found the ATI Mach64 PCI video adapter, it didn't seem to like the
ethernet card:
pci0: scanning device 0..15, mechanism=2.
chip0 <intel 82434LX pci cache memory controller> on pci0:0
chip1 <intel 82378IB pci-isa bridge> on pci0:2
pci0:6: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, device=0x2, class=network [not supported]
map(10): io(fc80)
map(14): mem32(ffbffc00)
vga0 <display device> on pci0:14
Any ideas here? I told the guys who were buying the systems to get SMC
cards. I never thought they'd be fool enough to get *PCI* SMC cards.
I haven't even been able to get WFW to work correctly with these things
yet (I'm trying to install the WFW TCP/IP stack since we don't have
any Novell or Microsoft LANs around, thank god).
Oh, one thing I discovered: the keyboard detect code in the bootblocks
seems to work correctly with these machines (you don't even have to
change the CMOS settings :), but you have to unplug both the keyboard
*and* the PS/2 style mouse before it will detect that the keyboard is
missing and default over to serial mode. This is perfectly understandable
and resonable (the mouse isn't much use without the keyboard anyway) but
I thought I'd note it in case anyone plans on trying the serial boot
stuff on a machine with a PS/2 mouse.
-Bill
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