From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 12 15:19:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA27849 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:19:39 -0700 Received: from eunet.fi (pim.eunet.fi [193.66.4.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA27841 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:19:36 -0700 Received: by eunet.fi id AA04985 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:15:39 +0300 Received: by pim.eunet.fi id AA004983 from gate.fidata.fi(193.64.102.1); Thu Jul 13 01:15:35 1995 Received: from zeta.fidata.fi (zeta.fidata.fi [193.64.102.5]) by gate.fidata.fi (8.7.Beta.9/8.7.Beta.9) with ESMTP id BAA02109; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:15:25 +0300 (DST) Received: (from tomppa@localhost) by zeta.fidata.fi (8.7.Beta.2/8.7.Beta.9) id BAA13379; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:15:24 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 01:15:24 +0300 (EET DST) From: Tomi Vainio Message-Id: <199507122215.BAA13379@zeta.fidata.fi> To: Gary Palmer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD EISA ethercard support In-Reply-To: <779.805548845@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <199507120816.LAA02657@zeta.fidata.fi> <779.805548845@palmer.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: tomppa@fidata.fi Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer writes: > In message <199507120816.LAA02657@zeta.fidata.fi>, Tomi Vainio writes: > >My card is SMC 8232. I think chips on board are SMC ultra chip and > >83790. I will check this later. > > After playing with an SMC EISA 100bT card at work, I've come to the > conclusion that we'll be lucky to find any SMC EISA cards that we > can/will/do support. It seems (at least for 100bT) that they have gone > with one of these custom chipsets which they are reluctant to part > with specs on, and I don't doubt that they have done the same for > most, if not all, of the rest of their EISA range :-( > I checked chips on my card. SMC Ultrachip 83C790QF SMC EISA Busmaster 83C571QF Do you have documentation for these? Tomppa