From owner-freebsd-net Mon Nov 9 18:46:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29284 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:46:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt3-59.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29264; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA06371; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 19:33:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199811100133.TAA06371@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Bruce Albrecht , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: ISA EtherExpress Pro/100 supported? In-reply-to: Message from Wes Peters of "Sun, 08 Nov 1998 20:16:32 MST." <36465E90.597D9CF5@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:33:04 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wes Peters writes: > Bruce Albrecht wrote: > > > > Is this NIC supported by FreeBSD? If so, which driver. If not, does > > anyone have any suggestions as to which driver would be a good choice > > to use as a base? > > Yes, it is; it is probably the preferred ethernet driver for FreeBSD > these days. The driver name is fxp. Wait one second, the question was, *ISA* EtherExpress Pro/100. An animal with the potential to occupy 100% of the ISA system bandwidth. See "man 4 ex" for the manpage entry for the 10M bps ISA card. The *PCI* EtherExpress 10/100B is quite a nice card. And inexpensive. See "man 4 fxp". At less than $60 it would be much cheaper to simply buy a new PCI card rather than write a driver for a discontinued card. OTOH you might have fun and learn something adapting a driver for a new card. Not knowing what chip is on your card I'd guess you need to study both the fxp and ex drivers. The fxp probably resembles your chip the most, the ex will show you something about how to interface with ISA. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message