Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:21:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress 16 code? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101101615380.28201-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010110135309.0497e990@localhost>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > >* Intel EtherExpress ISA (not recommended due to driver instability) Yes, this is refering to the "Intel EtherExpress" which was one label given to the "EtherExpress 8/16" or "EtherExpress 16" cards supported by the "ie" driver. I've got a port of the NetBSD MI driver in progress that should fix the stability problems. This card uses the i82586 or i82596 ethernet controller. The Intel EtherExpress 100 ISA (and EISA/PCI refered to as the "EtherExpress Pro/100A") are not supported. The EISA/PCI adapters use the i82556 chipset which is somewhat different from the i82557-9 chipsets. > 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. Indeed. Can you get me a copy of the docs? I'd love to read over them. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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