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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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