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> As Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Just had a look into that old U1 sitting on a shelf here, but I cannot
> identify a Lance chip there.  So it must have been integrated into one
> of those ASICs, no idea whether it would be compatible with the lnc(4)
> driver or not.

I had the same difficulties to find it, but on the NetBSD site they say is
based on AMD7990. So this should work once we have an sbus front end.

Regards,

G. Ardelean