Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:36:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> To: Brad Smith <bsmith@bfmni.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 Mobile Adapter supported? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811013603.18145F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <003901bdc4e0$2443bf60$6403a8c0@comstyle.com>
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the 82596 one, or the newer one? On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Brad Smith wrote: > I have a couple of these Intel EtherExpress PRO 10 PCI cards, but all I > could do is some testing of the driver and thats about it ... dont know > howto code in C (wish I could). > > Brad > > >On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Gary Roberts wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to load 2.2.7-RELEASE on a new Toshiba notebook which > >> has the above PCMCIA card but it doesn't seem to be detected by > >> the GENERIC kernel. > >> > >> I assumed that since the Intel EtherExpress PRO/10 is reported as > >> supported, it would probably also be in the PC card format as well. > >> > >> Can anyone advise whether there is any support now or in the near > >> future for this card? > > > >ok...first off...the PRO/10 driver is PCI only. #2 only NEW revisions of > >the card work...I have the OLD revision, and am considering writing a > >driver, but intel's documentation is VERY hard to find on the chip that > >drives it (the 82596)...I've found documentation to port to the NEW chip > >from the OLD, but none on the 82596...now...the pcmcia card doesn't use > >the PCI bus calls, it uses the PCCARD calls, which is a complete other > >ball of wax. > > > >now...if I can get the specs, I'll code a driver for the OLD one (fps > >driver, for fscking piece of spam...) anyway, I don't know how common it > >is, but the 82595 is the chip on the ISA cards, which is very common...the > >82596 is a local bus chip...and has a second chip for the bus (which > >handle the PCI stuff)...later, they designed a new chip (used on the > >NEW Pro10+'s, and the Pro10/100's...fxp driver) which has all of the PCI > >stuff on-chip, and has a reduced instruction set, and adds a reset > >instruction (I'm not going to go into details here, as this isn't a > >technical list). > > > >Anyway, if people are interested in the 82596 driver, and would like to > >support the effort, I'd appreciate any help they can offer (documentation > >you may have, spare cards that are based on it for testing, RAM for the > >test machine if you can spare it (cooked a 32meg 72-pin SIMM...lost my > >test machine), anything else you may want to contribute to the effort). > > > >I would write a driver for the PCCARD version, but I have neither a test > >card, nor a test machine for it, so, unless someone wants a driver badly > >enough to supply both of the above, you're out of luck on getting it from > >me. Lemme know what's up, folks :) > > > >-Jon > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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