From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 29 12:33:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA04711 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:33:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA04705 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-38.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA06726 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:32:58 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id VAA01483; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:32:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <19970429213251.62970@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:32:51 +0200 From: Stefan Esser To: Eivind Eklund Cc: afuchs@totum.plaut.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Integrated Netflex Ethernet Card (fwd) References: <19970429203217.10037@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> <199704291918.VAA20566@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.68 In-Reply-To: <199704291918.VAA20566@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Tue, Apr 29, 1997 at 09:18:52PM +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Apr 29, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > Compaq used Lance compatible chips, before, which > > are automatically attached by FreeBSD 2.x and newer. > > Not for anything lower than 2.1.6, at least. Compaq use some variant Sorry, I meant to say 2.2.x ... > of PCI 2, and wasn't detected without kernel patches until at least No, the lack of full support for the PCI Lance is caused by calling conventions in the network code of 2.1.x, which were to ISA centric ... It has nothing to do with PCI 2! I started to implement a wrapper, which would have hidden this from the driver, but decided to not release that code, since I have no way to test it under 2.1.x, and realized, that it meant delays for other things I was working on. > 2.1.6, possibly 2.1.7. I've run one of those cards since 2.1.0 - work > quite OK. (Reception errors on a moderately loaded Ethernet about 5 > times a day, causing a retransmitted packet. About 1MB/s for SMB > transfers - quite OK :) The ISA Lance driver works fine with these chips, once you manually configured the driver to use the attach address(es) selected by the PCI BIOS. Regards, STefan