From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 10:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBED37B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybercable.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA42919; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:31:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Message-ID: <3A0C3EFF.FC473FD0@cybercable.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:31:27 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" Subject: Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D79E3@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Dear All, > > Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release > to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the > on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). > > What is the newest version of FreeBSD that will propely support that card? > > If there are people who are cleaning up the support for older network cards > in FreeBSD I'd like to help out by sending you my old NICs. It's not like > they're any good to me without OS support. > > Please contact me off-list for any of the following cards: > > 3Com 3c503 ISA should be ok with the ed driver, for correct values of irq and io range > DEC Etherworks ISA > DEC DE205 ISA > SMC EtherEZ ISA ditto > RealTek "TP-Link" PCI > > As far as I've been able to determine, none of these work properly. In > particular, the RealTek card gets detected and pretends to work, but loses > the link after a bit (The link status LED goes out, and I need to reboot the > box.) > > I'll be happy to try out patches for the lnc driver to fix the problem of > the Deskpro, or to give remote access to it if you want to work on it. > > Kees Jan -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message