Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:50:29 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? Message-ID: <199509010550.WAA22460@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Aug 95 22:45:53 PDT." <199509010545.WAA00995@precipice.shockwave.com>
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> > From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> > Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? > > It will require twice the CPU, and in some extreme cases, this might be > enough to cause it to drop a packet. ...but normally it will work fine. > >Yeah, I just looked at the driver and saw the programmed IO cruft in there >to deal with the novell cards. Bummer. Someone mentioned that some of the >cards really do have shared memory and can run just like the SMC and 3COM. >Do you know anything about this? I seem to recall the the NE2100's have this ability, but there isn't support for it in the driver. I don't have any programming information for it and haven't had the time or interest in trying to acquire it. ...but the NE2000 doesn't have shared memory support; only programmed I/O. -DG
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