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Date:      Tue, 5 May 1998 16:56:04 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver
Message-ID:  <19980505165604.36955@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505080141.3577A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from Chris Dillon on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:14:52AM -0500
References:  <199805050505.BAA28835@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505080141.3577A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:14:52AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Bill Paul wrote:
> 
> > I would appreciate if people running FreeBSD 2.2.6 that have Compaq
> > hardware could test this driver to make sure it works, and if people
> 
> I have an older Compaq ProsiginiaVS server (486-66, EISA) running 2.2.5
> which has onboard Ethernet and SCSI, neither of which I got working (the
> onboard Ether is a Lance/PCnet chip, i think, so it should work), and the
> SCSI is an NCR chip of some kind.  I do have a Compaq (Netflex2/TR??) card
> sitting in a drawer that was Ethernet/TokenRing selectable, and I might be
> able to pop it back into Ethernet mode, plug it in, and test it out, maybe
> even as early as July. ;-> (production box).. I wish someone would come up
> with a driver for the stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff, too.  :-) 

The stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff worked fine for me, but I never took
that box beyond 2.1 (I've quit the company where I used it).  Ditto
for the Lance-based NetFlexes.

There were some initial problems getting the PCI probed correctly, but
merging from (then) 2.2-current made them go away.

Eivind.

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