From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 5 21:37:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C44714EE1 for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 21:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13304; Wed, 5 May 1999 21:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199905060436.VAA13304@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: Wes Peters , jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, "Mark J. Taylor" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetGear 10/100 Ethernet: an oversight? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 19:17:59 PDT." <199905060217.TAA04147@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 21:36:57 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a BayNetworks card which I guess has the Lite-On PNIC PCI network controller (/sys/pci/if_pn.c) Works okay over here. May 5 21:35:40 muadib /kernel: pn0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> at device 20 Cheers, Amancio > > When Compaq bought DEC, most of DEC's network manufacturing, including > > the design rights to the Tulip chip, were bought by Bay Networks, nee > > Nortel. I assume the FA310TX is still being made with the Tulip, > > unless Bay got smart and killed it. In that case, it's probably > > either a PNIC or the other Tulip-like chip from Winbond. > > The Tulip design is owned by Intel. > > The new Netgear cards are not the FA310TX. I think they use the PNIC > part, but my memory's never been the best. Ask Bill Paul if you really > care. > > Alternatively, if the GENERIC kernel isn't probing the card, please > tell us which chip is actually on it, so that we can fix things. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message