From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 8:10:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26BB37C054 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:10:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA65060; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:10:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:10:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDDI cards in -current In-Reply-To: <200003160918.KAA08436@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Planning a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet I'm wondering if I'm > on the safe side when using FreeBSD 4.0-current for this project > rather than being more conservative and use an older version of the > OS. fpa0: port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xfafd0000-0xfafdffff,0xfafee000-0xfafee07f irq 4 at device 6.0 on pci0 fpa0: DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI SAS Controller fpa0: FDDI address 00:00:f8:40:e4:a8, FW=2.46, HW=0, SMT V7.2 fpa0: FDDI Port = S (PMD = Unshielded Twisted Pair) Seems to work fine for me. > What FDDI cards could be recommended? (There aren't many, though, I > believe). Well, you've got 1 card family to pick from with several different models (bus type and media). I'm guessing that you're not gonna be getting any EISA boards so you'll want to get a 'DEFPA-??' where ?? indicates the media. I keep meaning to spend some time to resync our drivers with NetBSD's and to convert over the PCI bus front end stuff but haven't gotten around to it; this is the reason for this message: fpa0: driver is using old-style compatability shims which doesn't affect the operation of the board. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message