From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 16 19:14:32 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA11592 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:14:32 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA11583 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:14:29 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA21740; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:03:59 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508170203.TAA21740@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: SCSI controller questions??? To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 19:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Cc: craigh@msn.fullfeed.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508162236.AAA18059@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Aug 17, 95 00:36:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1424 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 3Com 3C501 Ethernet adapter (free from a friend) > > > > Free is a very nice price, but this is unsupported by FreeBSD :-(. It > > Nah, it is, read the FAQ :-) It is the "el" driver : Oh, gee, that thing finally was made workable. Okay, revise my statement ``Free is a very nice price, but your bandwidth will be about the same as the dollars you payed'' :-). > /* 3COM Etherlink 3C501 device driver for FreeBSD */ > /* Yeah, I know these cards suck, but you can also get them for free > * really easily... > */ > > > is an old old old DMA type ethernet card. Throw it in the garbage can > > and go spend $45 on a decent NE2000/WD8013 clone card. I recomend the > > Compex Freedom line run in NE2000 mode for minimal fuss on the ISA bus. > > I'd recommand the WD8013 over the NE2000 though. Perhaps you misunderstood. The card can do both NE2000 and WD8013 emulation. The hassle of doing the WD8013 mode shared memory conflict resolution, the fact you have to have flag 0x4, and memsiz 16384 turned on can cause first time users to have some hair loss, so for minimal fuss set the card to NE2000 mode, irq5, io 0x280, and just go. The wd8013 mode does have better performance, but only if your talking to someone else who can do 1.1MB/sec :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD