Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 07:02:46 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Jeremy <Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Experience with Compaq ProSignia 200 6/233 (esp SCSI/Ether)? Message-ID: <199804072102.HAA19751@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
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On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 09:45:16 -0700 (PDT), Tom <tom@sdf.com> wrote: > Compaq machines should be your last resort for FreeBSD, My sentiments also, unfortunately, I may be stuck with one due to company policy :-(. On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 12:49:41 -0700, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: >Jason Thomson <jason.thomson@mintel.co.uk> wrote: >> integrated Netelligent 10/100 PCI UTP/Coax > >This is based on the TI ThunderLan chip. FreeBSD does not have a >driver for it. I started some discussion on this several months ago. I didn't get anywhere, but TI make all the relevant programming information available. Also, there is a Linux driver for the ThunderLan chip (see ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan-0.30.tar.gz - or maybe a later version) that we are using here on some Linux boxes here. If I can't escape getting stuck with a Compaq, I'll probably wind up having to port or re-write the driver. The other thing to look out for is the video card. I did some experiments here and found that Compaq appear to have done something to their S3 card which makes it incompatible with XFree86. >In general, Compaq hardware is always just a little bit different >from everything else. Amen. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5247 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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