From owner-freebsd-net Tue Dec 7 21:57:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092CB14E38 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id VAA29710; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:56:10 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id VAA19563; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:56:09 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA03076; Tue, 7 Dec 99 21:56:01 PST Message-Id: <384DF316.26C9B786@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:56:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Thorpe Cc: ckwen , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fiber network adapter ? References: <199912080355.TAA22883@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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