Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:56:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: ckwen <ckwen@eembox.ee.ncku.edu.tw>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fiber network adapter ? Message-ID: <384DF316.26C9B786@softweyr.com> References: <199912080355.TAA22883@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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Jason Thorpe wrote: > > 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". Er, oops. Sorry, I kind of have FDDI on the brain today. > 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). According to http://www.megabyte.de/Megabyte/3316.htm it contains a 21140. The `de' driver does indeed support 100Base-FX media: case TULIP_MEDIA_100BASEFX: case TULIP_MEDIA_100BASET4: case TULIP_MEDIA_100BASETX: { So it looks like this card should be a go. Let me know if you need a good switch to plug it into. ;^) Thanks for the "boot to the head" Jason. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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