From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 19 12:06:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07535 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07517 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:06:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20227; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:04:58 +0200 (CEST) To: Mike Smith cc: John Galbraith , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:58:02 PDT." <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:04:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20225.908823898@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> >> Hi John, >> >> Sorry for pestering you with this, I've found a card at a reasonable >> price which says "hardware compatible with NI-GPIB PCIIA", do you >> think your driver would run that card ? > >Does it have an NI TNT chip on it? The "old" NI GPIB cards used the TI >GPIB controller chip, and I don't think John's driver will work (well, >if at all) with that. > >There's actually four different NI cards; the really old NEC-based >ones, the TI based ones, the TI based ones with the GPIB accelerator >chip and the TNT based cards. And what I'm trying to figure out is "If I tell my client to call the Danish rep for Nat.Inst, what should he tell them that he wants to buy ?" -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message