Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 11:51:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN Driver for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199807261851.LAA11368@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jul 1998 21:00:44 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.91.980725204311.12479A-100000@lily.ezo.net>
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> Well the User's Manual calles it a Cyrix Gx86 64-bit x86 Mobile Processor > and it looks just like the one on the computex site. > http://www.computex.com.tw/cmc/MINI586-LAN.htm Hmm, looks very much like the one I was playing with. > Key Features: > > Cyrix GX86-133 MHz CPU > Cyrix 5510 Chip Set > S3 86CM65 VGA, 2MB RAM, CRT & LCD ... but it was using the MediaGX internal video emulation. There was room on the board for video hardware, but it wasn't there. > AMD 79C971 Lan 10/100MB TPO > Cyrix MediaGX 16 bit Sound It's definitely a MediaGX then. > 1 x 3.5" 1.44MB FDD > Space for 1 x 3.5" HDD > 1 x ISA 16 Bit Slot Card > 2 x 16550, 1 x ECP/EPP > 2 x 72Pin SIMM Sockets > 60W Power Supply, 110/220V > Case Size: 29 x 22 x 5.5cm > > The ones I have been using I get from Liberty Electronics which now have > the name WinNET I (5BLCP) Ver. 1.0. About $285 US. They make a nifty > looking router/firewall/vpn appliance. That's the box alright, although the one I was playing with had Ingram Micro Gmbh on it. Same part number. Do these folks sell to individuals? > > Thanks for the tip. I'll look at the > diffs before I start. > > Jim Flowers <jflowers@ezo.net> > #4 ISP on C|NET, #1 in Ohio > > On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Now, if I can just get the lnc Ethernet driver to work with the built in > > > Am79C971 chip on the unit with the Gx86 processor I'll be happy. Next > > > project (shudder :-( Any other ideas here? > > > > Er, you mean "MediaGX", right? Which board is this? I ask because I > > was playing with one a little while back that sounds quite similar. It > > had a PCNet/FAST in it though. Unfortunately, it was too buggy to be > > useful (bad BIOS I think), but it would have been an extremely compact > > server if it worked. > > > > You might want to look at the tiny changes that were just recently > > committed to support the Hitachi Lance-clone. They just force it to be > > treated like an ISA device, which for some odd reason works properly. > > > > -- > > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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