Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:33:04 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA EtherExpress Pro/100 supported? Message-ID: <199811100133.TAA06371@n4hhe.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> of "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 20:16:32 MST." <36465E90.597D9CF5@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters writes: > Bruce Albrecht wrote: > > > > Is this NIC supported by FreeBSD? If so, which driver. If not, does > > anyone have any suggestions as to which driver would be a good choice > > to use as a base? > > Yes, it is; it is probably the preferred ethernet driver for FreeBSD > these days. The driver name is fxp. Wait one second, the question was, *ISA* EtherExpress Pro/100. An animal with the potential to occupy 100% of the ISA system bandwidth. See "man 4 ex" for the manpage entry for the 10M bps ISA card. The *PCI* EtherExpress 10/100B is quite a nice card. And inexpensive. See "man 4 fxp". At less than $60 it would be much cheaper to simply buy a new PCI card rather than write a driver for a discontinued card. OTOH you might have fun and learn something adapting a driver for a new card. Not knowing what chip is on your card I'd guess you need to study both the fxp and ex drivers. The fxp probably resembles your chip the most, the ex will show you something about how to interface with ISA. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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