Date: Tue, 21 Jan 97 6:59:29 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: open offer for DEC-21140AC driver Message-ID: <199701211259.GAA22285@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <199701210813.AAA24976@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Jan 21, 97 00:13:52 am
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> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:48:22 -0600 (CST) > Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> wrote: > > > We're in need of a driver for the DEC-21140AC-based 100mb ethernet > > cards for 2.1.6 and we're interested in paying somebody to develop the > > driver for it (shouldn't be too much change on top of the existing driver). > > If you have the expertise and would be willing to develop this driver soon > > please send me a quote. > > I recently committed an update (from Matt Thomas) to the "de" driver > to NetBSD... and it should work with these cards: > > de0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 at irq 9 > de0: SMC 9332 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2 > de0: address 00:00:c0:e2:7b:e4 > de0: enabling 10baseT port > de1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 at irq 9 > de1: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0 > de1: address 00:c0:f0:16:29:56 > de1: enabling 10baseT port > > Might try the NetBSD-current version of the driver (should have all of > the #ifdefs to make it go under FreeBSD). I tried Matt's driver back in October/November, with both the new SMC EtherPower 10/100's and the Kingston cards, and it works very very nicely. Unfortunately only under 2.1.*, it was not compatible with 2.2.* without lots of hacking. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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