From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 5 15:43:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from imo-m08.mx.aol.com (imo-m08.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEEEB37B416 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 15:43:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from TD790@aol.com by imo-m08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.9.) id j.4f.1688d60a (1321); Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:43:06 -0500 (EST) From: TD790@aol.com Message-ID: <4f.1688d60a.2968e98a@aol.com> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:43:06 EST Subject: Re: Phobos 4-port NIC To: busto@sbcglobal.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 139 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a message dated 01/04/2002 10:54:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, busto@sbcglobal.net writes: > I have recently acquired a pair of Phobos 4-port NIC's, the P430TX > model. On it, it has 4 Intel 21143TD chips, and one larger Intel > 21152AB chip. > > The driver (binary only) provided by Phobos is from 1999. Does FreeBSD > have any support for this card? Perhaps by the dc or de drivers? If > not, how difficult would it be to add it, keeping in mind I'm best > described as a junior junior kernel hacker. :> > Uh, I'm wondering why anyone would care..considering that DLINK has fundamentally the same card and they are selling it for a ridiculously low price. Phobos always claimed "superiority", but its just a PCI bridge and (the same old) 21143 as all of the other 4 port cards (yawn)...if it doesnt work with the dc driver then I'd dump it. DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message