Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: luce@aaronsen.com (Doug Luce) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: National Semiconductor 82c168/82c169 driver Message-ID: <20001218200248.0450E37B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181443210.32262-100000@gibson.aaronsen.com> from Doug Luce at "Dec 18, 2000 02:45:49 pm"
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> I haven't been able to find a driver for this ethernet card, That's because it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a "National Semiconductor 82c168/82c169." There is such a thing as a National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPHYter), and there's also such a thing as a Lite-On 82c168/82c169 (PNIC). You appear to have gotten the two confused. Also, this is a chip, not a card. What you really meant to say was: "I just bought this new Netgear FA311-TX (or FA312-TX) card and it has a National Semiconductor chip on it. This has me all confused because the last Netgear card I bought (an FA310-TX) had a PNIC chip on it." If you have FreeBSD 4.1.1 or later, then the NatSemi chip will work with the "sis" driver. (It has a similar programming interface to the SiS 900 so I decided to just modify the sis driver to support it rather than writing a whole new one.) I've tested a Netgear FA312-TX in the office and from what I can tell it works fine. The PNIC chip works with the dc driver. > so I'm > working on porting the Linux driver over. It seems to have "natsemi" > coded in as the default device mnenomic. You mean: "The source file appears to be called netsemi.c." Linux network interfaces are all called ethX. > Is it a good idea to pull this > name directly over to FreeBSD? So my Ethernet interface would be natsemi0 > instead of fxp0 (for an Intel card)... No, it's a good idea to try a newer FreeBSD release, or grab if_sis.c and if_sisreg.h from a newer release and put it on your older system. It's also a good idea to tell us what version of FreeBSD you're using so we don't have to guess. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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