From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 30 00:04:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14633 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (max@iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14628 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:04:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (max@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA04807; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:02:36 +0700 (NSS) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:02:36 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Michael Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/PCI troubles In-Reply-To: <199707290413.NAA10221@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > How about giving us a complete description of the problem, including > what (if anything) differs between the Linux and FreeBSD > configurations of the card. Linux uses PCNet32/PCNet PCI optimized driver (dword i/o operations), while FreeBSD uses Generic LANCE/PCNet driver (word i/o access mode) btw, is there anybody going to write PCNet32/PCNet PCI driver for FreeBSD? Linux (and Win95 ;) have no troubles with these network cards > For that matter, have you tried running Linux on this _particular_ > machine? yep. and it runs perfectly. the only reason to against installing Linux is that our main server is a FreeBSD box (YP password shadowing will not work with Linux clients) /max