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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Ultra2?
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>
> > Good news. This means that also my Ultra 1 is now supported (except
> > LANCE network card).
>
> There used to be a lnc(4) driver in the tree...  Yup, it's still
> there, /sys/dev/lnc.  Perhaps it could be taught to attach to your bus
> system (Sbus, I suppose)?

Yes we are missing the sbus frontend, but last time I've tried to use a
lnc card on i386 (AT-1500FT with PCnet-ISA II/AM79C961AKC) this was not
recognized at all. Indeed the chip is not in the list (if_lncvar.h) and I
had no idea how to add this chip also.

Regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean