Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:38:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: AMD PCnet - Home (AM79C978KC) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990522193440.2949A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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I recently heard about the "Diamond HomeFree" network cards that provide an ethernet interface running on a traditional in-home phone system. They supposedly situation an ethernet-style layer in one of the free frequency ranges, and make use of an AMD chip to do this (mentioned in title). I note that we have an AMD drive that, according to the 3.2 release notes, supports 'AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)'. These numbers are pretty similar -- does anyone know if the driver supports this card? If not, anyone have information on whom I might contact at AMD to get specs to modify our driver to support it (I assume that it probably has a prety similar interface). The AMD chip is the only one, pretty much, on the PCI card so I assume it's the only relevant component. I head in this direction as I just discovered the wall I planned to drop UTP down to get to our ADSL modem in the basement is not going to be happy holding cables :-), and there are existing phone lines all over the place. The propaganda on the back says it can handle up to a megabit, which is pretty decent; the bumf also claims it coexists happily with existing phone service and xDSL at the same time. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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