Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:37:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Galbraith <john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available Message-ID: <199810192137.OAA01505@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:23:35 PDT." <199810192123.OAA02238@magpie.ece.arizona.edu>
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> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > >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. > > > > I have developed the driver with two cards: one is a AT-GPIB/TNT and > the other is this really ancient AT-GPIB (1988) with a NEC7210 > (actually from NEC, not a clone) and a TURBO488 chip. I thought the > turbo chip was a National part, but maybe it is actually a TI. I have > the card at home and will have to check tonight. In any case, the > driver works with both cards. I took care not to use any extended > features introduced by National that aren't supported by the older > card. The really old ones, before they had the TURBO accelerator, are > not supported by my driver, and never will be unless somebody else > does it. No, the Turbo488 is an National Instruments job. I must have gotten the NEC and TI chips mixed up in my head. I don't have access to the old Natinst catalogs anymore, so I can't even check for my own sanity. > I have been sent PnP patches that have been incorporated into the > driver. I haven't tested them myself, because I don't have a PnP > card. Getting a PnP card to work wouldn't be hopeless, anyway. > Getting the PCI version to work would be hopeless. No more luck getting the MITE documentation I presume? 8( -- \\ 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-hardware" in the body of the message
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