Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:25:54 -0400 From: bsmith@bfmni.com (Brad Smith) To: "Dexnation Holodream" <dex@wankers.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Mobile Adapter supported? Message-ID: <003901bdc4e0$2443bf60$6403a8c0@comstyle.com>
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I have a couple of these Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 PCI cards, but all I could do is some testing of the driver and thats about it ... dont know howto code in C (wish I could). Brad >On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Gary Roberts wrote: > >> I'm trying to load 2.2.7-RELEASE on a new Toshiba notebook which >> has the above PCMCIA card but it doesn't seem to be detected by >> the GENERIC kernel. >> >> I assumed that since the Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 is reported as >> supported, it would probably also be in the PC card format as well. >> >> Can anyone advise whether there is any support now or in the near >> future for this card? > >ok...first off...the PRO/10 driver is PCI only. #2 only NEW revisions of >the card work...I have the OLD revision, and am considering writing a >driver, but intel's documentation is VERY hard to find on the chip that >drives it (the 82596)...I've found documentation to port to the NEW chip >from the OLD, but none on the 82596...now...the pcmcia card doesn't use >the PCI bus calls, it uses the PCCARD calls, which is a complete other >ball of wax. > >now...if I can get the specs, I'll code a driver for the OLD one (fps >driver, for fscking piece of spam...) anyway, I don't know how common it >is, but the 82595 is the chip on the ISA cards, which is very common...the >82596 is a local bus chip...and has a second chip for the bus (which >handle the PCI stuff)...later, they designed a new chip (used on the >NEW Pro10+'s, and the Pro10/100's...fxp driver) which has all of the PCI >stuff on-chip, and has a reduced instruction set, and adds a reset >instruction (I'm not going to go into details here, as this isn't a >technical list). > >Anyway, if people are interested in the 82596 driver, and would like to >support the effort, I'd appreciate any help they can offer (documentation >you may have, spare cards that are based on it for testing, RAM for the >test machine if you can spare it (cooked a 32meg 72-pin SIMM...lost my >test machine), anything else you may want to contribute to the effort). > >I would write a driver for the PCCARD version, but I have neither a test >card, nor a test machine for it, so, unless someone wants a driver badly >enough to supply both of the above, you're out of luck on getting it from >me. Lemme know what's up, folks :) > >-Jon > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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