Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:30 +0400 From: "Alexander V. Tischenko" <flash@intech.hway.ru> To: "Max Khon" <max@iclub.nsu.ru>, "Michael Smith" <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles Message-ID: <199707300754.LAA15470@thorin.hway.ru>
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Max, I've got a source for one. It was once a port of linux driver code to 2.1.5-RELEASE. If you need it, i'll send you. Alexander V. Tischenko ---------- > From: Max Khon <max@iclub.nsu.ru> > To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles > Date: 30 èþëÿ 1997 ã. 11:02 > > > > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > How about giving us a complete description of the problem, including > > what (if anything) differs between the Linux and FreeBSD > > configurations of the card. > > Linux uses PCNet32/PCNet PCI optimized driver (dword i/o operations), > while FreeBSD uses Generic LANCE/PCNet driver (word i/o access mode) > btw, is there anybody going to write PCNet32/PCNet PCI driver for FreeBSD? > Linux (and Win95 ;) have no troubles with these network cards > > > For that matter, have you tried running Linux on this _particular_ > > machine? > > yep. and it runs perfectly. the only reason to against installing Linux is > that our main server is a FreeBSD box (YP password shadowing will not work > with Linux clients) > > /max
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