From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 26 12:12:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBB815CEA for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA27799; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:11:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:11:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what's the best working gigabit ether card... In-Reply-To: <199908261910.NAA84408@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I've been (possibly mis-) informed that Packet Engine's GigEther card has > > been dropped. In fact, that's why I've been contacted to look into > > alternates. > > Hmm, interesting. Do you know if there was ever a FreeBSD driver for it? No. The system this is for isn't a FreeBSD system (but similar). > > One other thing I didn't mention about the Alteon-based boards is that the > firmware source is available for them, without an NDA. You can compile it > with a gcc cross compiler under FreeBSD. > > > Essential Networks has a GigE variant of their RoadRunner card (HIPPI)- > > porting Kevin Lahey's driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD for that card has been > > on my list for a while... > > Hmm, I didn't know there was a GigE version of that card. I don't see any > mention of it on their web page... (seems to be a common theme today) Yup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message