Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:47:25 -0400 From: "Lu, Mark" <LuMark@NAVCANADA.CA> To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Compaq Neflex ethernet drivers for TI ThunderLAN chip;was RE:Integrated ethernet on Compaq Deskpro 6000 Message-ID: <c=CA%a=_%p=NAVCANADA%l=NAVCANADA/NCR/00087AAC@gatewaysrv.navcanada.ca>
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Is anyone interested in writing or porting a device driver for Texas Instruments TLAN-based ethernet controllers (eg. Compaq Netflex), because TI has now released info on the chip on their website. There is also an Alpha driver available for it on Linux at ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/stuff/tlan-0.24.tar.gz How much work is involved in porting a device driver from Linux? Is this easier than starting from scratch? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:40:31 -0500 From: bill@tcada.state.tx.us (Bill Douglass) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Integrated ethernet on Compaq Deskpro 6000 I am trying to install FreeBSD (either 2.1.5R or 2.2-SNAP 101496) onto a Compaq Deskpro 6000, Adaptec Ultra SCSI 2940, integrated ethernet. This is a machine I am setting up for web service, so X11 is not an issue. I cannot get the boot floppies to recognize the on-board ethernet card (Netflex-3/P, PCI). Searching through the mailing-list archive led me to think I needed the Lnce driver (lnc0) so I set that up, using the config. that Win95 gave for the device's settings . No dice. The probes recognized the device as a Compaq network device, but has no driver installed - pci0:11: Compaq, device=0xae35, class=network (misc) int a irq 11 [no driver assigned] I appreciate any tips from those who have worked with the model. Thanks greatly. -- Bill Douglass, bill@tcada.state.tx.us (512) 349-6734 Network Administrator, Texas Commission on Alcohol & Drug Abuse "I dreamed I was to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet." L. Anderson >
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