Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 19:50:44 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody have... Message-ID: <199808070250.TAA11170@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 22:24:24 EDT." <199808070224.WAA26430@whizzo.transsys.com>
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> >> You're probably thinking of the 82586. The 82593 is an old low-power >> device, used in eg. the Wavelan PCCARD adapters and some IBM notebooks. >> (I don't think that Garrett wrote the PCCARD Wavelan >> driver.) >> >> It seems laughable to me that Intel wouldn't be able to offer a >> datasheet on such a part, when you can still get datasheets on the 8255. >> >> It's not clear whether the datasheet for the 82595 would shed any light >> on what you're currently trying to work out, but it's worth a stab. > >As I recall at the time, we looked at the 82595 datasheets, and it's a >bit of a different animal. The 82593 presumes the laptop sort of environment, >along with a dedicated DMA controllers that's configured in "wrap" mode. Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> wrote a FreeBSD driver for the WaveLAN. Perhaps that will be of some use to you (whoever it was that first asked)... -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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