Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 23:27:12 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver Message-ID: <19980505232712.02077@mi.uni-koeln.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505124606.456B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 12:52:53PM -0500 References: <199805051527.LAA29903@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505124606.456B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On 1998-05-05 12:52 -0500, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> wrote: > This has an NCR controller embedded in it also, but not the 53c875 or > anything like it. Wasn't there some kind of NCR Ethernet/SCSI combo chip > available at one time? That may be what this is. I'll poke my head in Yes, there is one, its a FastEthernet/Ultra-SCSI chip, though. But what you have is most probably a Lance (PCI chip is lnc1, since lnc0 is reserved for a possible ISA card) and an AMD 53c974 compatible SCSI engine. That's the AMD Ethernet+SCSI Combo chip, and it is known to work under 2.2.x and -current. The SCSI part is supported by the "amd" driver, which in fact is derived from the FreeBSD sources released by Tekram for their DC-390 / DC-390T host adapter cards (the 390W, 390F and 390U are based on NCR chips, though). > the box when I get back to work and look, though I know people have asked > questions about it ages ago in these lists, since I searched them several > months ago. I could not get support for the PCI Lance into 2.1, and you had to manually configure the driver to use the correct probe address. But I made the driver work with 2.2.x one and a half year ago ... The AMD SCSI driver was originally limited to cards with the Tekram SCSI options EEPROM. When I imported the driver, I put in a fallback, which made it work with other AMD based cards and the Combo chip in those Compaqs. This did also happen in late 1996. Please send me a verbose boot message log (boot with "-v"), if you can't get both the Ethernet and SCSI functionality to work. Regards, STefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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