From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 21:30:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28643 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:30:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA28638 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wR9Ck-0004vC-00; Mon, 12 May 1997 22:28:50 -0600 To: Michael Smith Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 13:52:26 +0930." <199705130422.NAA13937@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199705130422.NAA13937@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:28:50 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199705130422.NAA13937@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: : I don't think these are "real" NE2000's. The 'fe' driver supports : cards based on the 86960/86965 chipset; it's possible that you may : have some success with this, but the driver is fairly smart about only : identifying cards it actually _knows_ it supports, so you might have : to prod some of its debugging to get a real answer. OK. Hmmm, does Linux support this card.... Hmmm, will have to check out my Linux tree (if I can find it after the great disk shuffle). Maybe it will give me clues. : > One has jumper blocks clearly labeled, but FreeBSD dosn't recognize : > the card at all. Might not be NE-2000 compatible? That's the one : > with the two chips I listed above.... : : See above wrt. the 'fe' driver. OK. I'll have to give that a spin. These two cards definitely are ancestors of this. : > Yuck. Too bad you have to send packets before you know the IRQ is : > correct or not :-(. The Novell card lives at 0x320 I just discovered. : : Yeah, as long as your system boots fairly quickly it's not so bad though 8) My boot takes forever. : > : The 'problem' with probing wildly for 'ed' cards is just that you have : > : to kick them to make them talk. If you kick something else instead, it : > : might get upset. : > : > Yes. I'd love to say "I have a machine with nothing interesting in : > it, please kick at will and tell me what you find out" :-) : : It's all possible 8) I hate having ideas and NO TIME ARGH ARGH ARGH. I know the feeling... Warner