Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 14:10:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for the Dell Docking station ethernet adpt?? Message-ID: <199605121910.OAA16610@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199605121736.AA26072@Sisyphos> from Stefan Esser at "May 12, 96 07:36:35 pm"
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Stefan Esser wrote: > On May 11, 19:08, Bob Willcox wrote: > } Subject: Support for the Dell Docking station ethernet adpt?? > } Hi all, > } > } I just got a Dell XPi-P120ST Notebook computer and their docking > } station (aka ``Advanced Port Replicator'') and was hoping FreeBSD > } has support for the Ethernet adapter in it. The docs that came > > Does this docking station offer PCI slots and built in devices ? > If this is the case, I might be able to help. It comes with two built-in ISA devices. The SCSI adapter is an Adaptec AIC-6360 (already supported by FreeBSD and works! :-) and a SMC91C94 (I may have mis-stated this as a SMC91C92 before) which (apparently) FreeBSD does not have a driver for. I was able to find a Linux driver, though, so I am going to try to build a FreeBSD driver for the chip. > > } with the docking station say that it has a SMC91C92 chipset. Does > } anybody know if FreeBSD has a driver for this? I have booted the > } 2.2-960501-SNAP floppy but it doesn't seem to find the adapter. > } > } Any help would be greatly appreicated (Please...I don't want to be > } left trapped in Windows!!) > > Please send me (as always :) VERBOSE boot messages ... Thanks for the offer. I'll keep it in mind :-) > > I just bought a PCI NE2000 clone (against better knowledge :-) > in order to finally get some cheap PCI Ethernet cards fully > supported by PCI plug'n'play (including PCI shared interrupt > support), and your card might either be supported by the > patches I already worked out, or may be easy to add ... Hmm, I doubt it. This SMC chip family (all the SMC-91Cxxx line) seem pretty unique in their interface. -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX
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