Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:52:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505124606.456B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <199805051527.LAA29903@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Eivind Eklund > had to walk into mine and say: > > > On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:14:52AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > > > I would appreciate if people running FreeBSD 2.2.6 that have Compaq > > > > hardware could test this driver to make sure it works, and if people > > > > > > I have an older Compaq ProsiginiaVS server (486-66, EISA) running 2.2.5 > > > which has onboard Ethernet and SCSI, neither of which I got working (the > > > onboard Ether is a Lance/PCnet chip, i think, so it should work), and the > > > SCSI is an NCR chip of some kind. I do have a Compaq (Netflex2/TR??) card > > > sitting in a drawer that was Ethernet/TokenRing selectable, and I might be > > > able to pop it back into Ethernet mode, plug it in, and test it out, maybe > > > even as early as July. ;-> (production box).. I wish someone would come up > > > with a driver for the stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff, too. :-) > > Well, the ThunerLAN is a PCI-only chip and looks nothing like the LANCE > in terms of its programming interface, so I can't help you there. A lot > of the time the hard part is getting the chip probed correctly; if it is > a LANCE then maybe the le driver will work with it, but you have to make > the le driver realize it's there first. > > Also, the ThunderLAN chip does support either ethernet or token ring > physical interfaces (PHYs) so it's very likely that the Netflex card > you have is a ThunderLAN and will work with this driver, provided it's > a PCI adapter. I didn't include token ring support though. I may be confusing something else termed (marketed) on those cards as Thunder-something (TI ThunderPacket?). Sorry if I've wasted a lot of bandwidth already. :-) > > The stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff worked fine for me, but I never took > > that box beyond 2.1 (I've quit the company where I used it). Ditto > > for the Lance-based NetFlexes. > > > > There were some initial problems getting the PCI probed correctly, but > > merging from (then) 2.2-current made them go away. > > > > Eivind. > > The Prosignia server I have uses an NCR SCSI card in one of its PCI > slots. Dmesg says: This has an NCR controller embedded in it also, but not the 53c875 or anything like it. Wasn't there some kind of NCR Ethernet/SCSI combo chip available at one time? That may be what this is. I'll poke my head in the box when I get back to work and look, though I know people have asked questions about it ages ago in these lists, since I searched them several months ago. -- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@inter-linc.net --- cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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