From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 10 13: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD7F37B6A0 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02744; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:00:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010110135309.0497e990@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:00:02 -0700 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress 16 code? Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010109220113.049f4880@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:28 PM 1/10/2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: >Really? I've got a couple of those cards, which use National Semi. parts, >and never was able to get the documentation for them. > >I've not seen any mention of a partially working driver in the tree... The FreeBSD Handbook, at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html says: >* Intel EtherExpress ISA (not recommended due to driver instability) These cards use a National Semiconductor chip that was used in a few Cisco routers as well. It has a very clean interface, and I'd begun to adapt the ed driver to it. (One thing that's nice about it is that you can use REP INSW and REP OUTSW instructions on x86 to transfer data with no wait states, giving you the maximum transfer rate that's possible on an ISA bus.) The spec sheet isn't generally available because National Semiconductor isn't promoting the part, but Intel and Olicom still sell a lot of these boards. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message