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Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100 (i82557) Server Adapter not seen by fxp. 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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>>Ick.  It appears this card is just diffrent enough that the
>>fxp driver doesn't understand it.
>
>Exactly...  And I'm somewhat surprised that I haven't
>yet(?) seen any commentary in this thread/subject from the
>fxp driver author/maintainer, David Greenman...

   Sorry, I was away at the LISA conference and just got back.

>Anyway, sometime back, I asked him specifically about this card
>(& a couple of others) & he told me the following (paraphrased):
>
>1.  *None* of Intel's "intelligent" network cards (those
>    with an onboard CPU such as the i960) are supported.
>
>2.  The "enhanced" features of the 8255x chips
>    (specifically, the hardware TCP-checksum support on cards
>    like the Pro100+ Server Adapter) are also *not* supported.
>
>IIRC/IIUC, the reason is that the information necessary for
>device driver developers to support these cards/adapters/features
>is only available from Intel under NDA.  :-(

   All correct, unfortunately.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com
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