From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 13:32:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA19220 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19215 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA03946; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:26:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199606072026.NAA03946@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Is AMD Pci Ethernet card supported ? To: ATuretta@stylo.it (Angelo Turetta) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 13:26:26 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Angelo Turetta" at Jun 7, 96 07:12:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've just bought half a dozen PCI ethernet adapter built around an AMD chip > marked: > > PCnet(TM) PCI II > AM79C970AKC > > They are quite cheap (well, at least for Italy: they are at about $80 for a > combo 10BASE2/10BASET/AUI), and work well under Windows/Windows95/WindowsNT. > I would like to try one of them on our 960501-SNAP Internet server, but the > chip is not mentioned on the release notes, nor I've found any reference in > /sys/pci/*.c. > > Does anybody know whether this chip is supported, and by which driver ? Yes. Lance driver. Get the base and IRQ addresses right in the boot -c, and it should work -- as should the PCNet SCSI ethernet portion of the chip (some Compaq, and Micron boxes). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.