From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 13:33:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA04921 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:33:19 -0700 Received: from FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at (ftp.fim.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.100.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04913 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:33:16 -0700 Received: by FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA12619; Wed, 7 Jun 95 22:38:07 +0200 Received: from scotty (scotty [192.168.1.1]) by uhura (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA00183; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 23:13:44 +0200 Received: (from cg@localhost) by scotty (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA01471; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:44:14 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 19:44:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" Reply-To: cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: NCR810 problem? In-Reply-To: <199506071659.JAA02431@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Some months ago, I wrote a driver for the 82596 ethernet controller sitting > > on an Intel EV960CA evaluation board. If you want, I'll be able to give you > > (or someone who is willing to port it to FreeBSD) the source. > > Do you still happen to have that EV960CA around, I tried to get a hold of > one of these about a year and a half ago, but Intel had stopped makeing > them. The EV960CA will by design look quite different than most I/O > card type i82596 cards, but should work the same for the MB versions. Yeah, we tried to get a second board and failed too :). Especially the 82596 piggy pack module was the problem. Intel told us, that the engineers who developed this module left Intel, and so they stopped makeing this. Then we bought a Heurikon HK960 board :-)! -- Christian. "The best way you can accelerate windows, cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at is through one." - Ivan Wheelwright