From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 4:28:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4017B37B69E for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cactus.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:27:46 +0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: card compatibility Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:27:45 +0000 Message-ID: <4338.980339265@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Greg MATTHEWS Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can anyone help with this? network and sound cards. ------- Forwarded Message hi.. been messing around with freebsd recently on an old P100. i want to know about its compatibility with a cpl of cards i have in there. one is an old non p-n-p dlink de220ct isa network card. it uses a dl2517 chip but i'm unsure of which driver this will match with. is it a ne2000 clone or will it require ibm or some other drivers? i've looked through the website for documentation on d-link but no joy. i actually have access to quite a few slightly differing versions of this card if that will help. the other card is a much newer (1998 i think) diamond multimedia pci sound card. it seems to be based around an ess maestro-2 chip. i dont know much about this one as the diamond site is a bit lacking in legacy info. i have got it working in windoze95. it appears to be a 'sonic impact' card. no fcc id but it has p/n 23010117-002 having demonstrated to myself that i can use my modem with freebsd, i'm keen to do away with the dos partition altogether and use this box as a gateway for my other machine (sparc classic running netbsd) or possibly the other way around. to do this tho i must get the network card working. incidentally - i know the irq and mem address set in the dlink card from running the diag prog in w95. any help would be much appreciated. GREG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------- End of Forwarded Message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message