From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 19 17:16:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA00919 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:16:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp [164.71.1.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA00911 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp by fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.8.4+2.7Wbeta4/3.3W5-MX961019-Fujitsu Mail Gateway) id KAA20589; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:16:32 +0900 (JST) Received: from nile.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp by fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.6.12+2.5Wb4/3.3W9-MX970108-Fujitsu Domain Mail Master) id KAA04029; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:15:59 +0900 Received: (from seki@localhost) by nile.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA04346; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:10:44 +0900 (JST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 10:10:44 +0900 (JST) From: Masahiro Sekiguchi Message-Id: <199701200110.KAA04346@nile.sysrap.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> To: David Hunt Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Card In-Reply-To: <32DDB113.4D93@apdata.com.au> References: <32DDB113.4D93@apdata.com.au> Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David, > I need > to know if Free BSD will support a Tiara Lancard E*AT 10BaseT card, the > ethernet controller on it is a Fujitsu MB86950B. There are no device driver for Fujitsu 86950 family chips available on FreeBSD, as far as I know. 86950 is a predecessor of 86960 series (which fe driver supports) and shares similar chip design with 86960, but the software interface is incompatible. So, you cannot use the Tiara card, unless you (or someone else) write a device driver for it.