Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:12:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gemohler@alpha1.phoenix.net (Geoff Mohler) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development (fwd) Message-ID: <199604300142.LAA18042@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960429115813.17811A-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> from "Geoff Mohler" at Apr 29, 96 11:58:18 am
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Geoff Mohler stands accused of saying: > > > The AMD PCNet chips "net" is a LANCE ethernet chip. The current > > ethernet drivers work with this chip without modification, as long > > as you pick the right IRQ and port addresses. > > What do I need to do to get BSD to detect this chipset..it cant find it > by default. You'll need to boot with the '-v' option, and notice what address and IRQ the PCI probe detects the chip at, and then boot again with '-c' and configure the 'lnc' driver to match. > > The SCSI portion of this chip is an NCR 780(?) compatible chip... > > I remember reading a post on one of the lists about a driver being > > available for the SCSI portion, but I didn't save the thing. Most > > uncharacteristic of me. 8-(. > > Thats ok..we can swap the SCSI 1G drives for IDE..not a problem. As long as disk performance isn't an issue; I presume for routers it's not 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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