From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 8 16:17:58 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA23304 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:17:58 -0800 Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA23298 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 16:17:54 -0800 Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA05203 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Feb 1995 19:15:30 -0500 From: Wankle Rotary Engine Message-Id: <199502090015.TAA05203@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Support for SMC8432 PCI ethernet cards? To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 19:15:26 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2687 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The image lab here at the CTR just received two Gateway 2000 Pentium PCI systems (my understanding is that they plan to install MPEG-encoder boards in them for a project of some kind). Apparently one of these systems will have both a 1-GIG IDE drive and a a 1-GIG SCSI, and one of the guys in the image department says he wouldn't mind trying to install FreeBSD on on a partition of one of those drives. (We haven't installed the SCSI adapter yet, so I'm not sure about when or if I'll get to do this -- stay tuned). Anyway, both machines came with SMC8432BT (10baseT and BNC) ethernet adapters pre-installed (also Windows for Workgroups -- blech!). The 8432's are PCI cards. I'm wondering what the chances are that FreeBSD will be able to use these things. Since I had the boot floppy from the Feb 2nd snapshot handy, I tried to boot the system with it and while it successfuly found the ATI Mach64 PCI video adapter, it didn't seem to like the ethernet card: pci0: scanning device 0..15, mechanism=2. chip0 on pci0:0 chip1 on pci0:2 pci0:6: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, device=0x2, class=network [not supported] map(10): io(fc80) map(14): mem32(ffbffc00) vga0 on pci0:14 Any ideas here? I told the guys who were buying the systems to get SMC cards. I never thought they'd be fool enough to get *PCI* SMC cards. I haven't even been able to get WFW to work correctly with these things yet (I'm trying to install the WFW TCP/IP stack since we don't have any Novell or Microsoft LANs around, thank god). Oh, one thing I discovered: the keyboard detect code in the bootblocks seems to work correctly with these machines (you don't even have to change the CMOS settings :), but you have to unplug both the keyboard *and* the PS/2 style mouse before it will detect that the keyboard is missing and default over to serial mode. This is perfectly understandable and resonable (the mouse isn't much use without the keyboard anyway) but I thought I'd note it in case anyone plans on trying the serial boot stuff on a machine with a PS/2 mouse. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Tue Feb 7 01:49:07 EST 1995 ~~~~~~~~~