Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 12:44:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Call for testers for ThunderLAN ethernet driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505123230.456A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19980505165604.36955@follo.net>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 08:14:52AM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > I would appreciate if people running FreeBSD 2.2.6 that have Compaq > > > hardware could test this driver to make sure it works, and if people > > > > I have an older Compaq ProsiginiaVS server (486-66, EISA) running 2.2.5 > > which has onboard Ethernet and SCSI, neither of which I got working (the > > onboard Ether is a Lance/PCnet chip, i think, so it should work), and the > > SCSI is an NCR chip of some kind. I do have a Compaq (Netflex2/TR??) card > > sitting in a drawer that was Ethernet/TokenRing selectable, and I might be > > able to pop it back into Ethernet mode, plug it in, and test it out, maybe > > even as early as July. ;-> (production box).. I wish someone would come up > > with a driver for the stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff, too. :-) > > The stinkin' Compaq SCSI stuff worked fine for me, but I never took > that box beyond 2.1 (I've quit the company where I used it). Ditto > for the Lance-based NetFlexes. Yeah, i know the Lance based stuff should work (in fact I think I did get it to work, and opted instead for a 3COM 3c509 i had laying around), but the onboard SCSI was never detected. You must have had to patch something to get that to work.. Mind sharing those patches? :-) I have the onboard SCSI and possibly a "Compaq WIDE SCSI" controller I would like to get to work. I have an Adaptec 2742(aic7770) EISA card in there now and it has worked very well, but the more SCSI busses the merrier. > There were some initial problems getting the PCI probed correctly, but > merging from (then) 2.2-current made them go away. This is an entirely EISA system, and sufficiently old enough that the "stinkin' Compaq SCSI" may not be supported like it is on your system. I remember looking through the mailing lists to see if anything came up about the particular controller this thing has embedded in it (I forget which, exactly), and all I could find was "It's not supported". -- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@inter-linc.net --- cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) (http://www.freebsd.org) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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