Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:31:27 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3A0C3EFF.FC473FD0@cybercable.fr> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D79E3@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Dear All, > > Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release > to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the > on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). > > What is the newest version of FreeBSD that will propely support that card? > > If there are people who are cleaning up the support for older network cards > in FreeBSD I'd like to help out by sending you my old NICs. It's not like > they're any good to me without OS support. > > Please contact me off-list for any of the following cards: > > 3Com 3c503 ISA should be ok with the ed driver, for correct values of irq and io range > DEC Etherworks ISA > DEC DE205 ISA > SMC EtherEZ ISA ditto > RealTek "TP-Link" PCI > > As far as I've been able to determine, none of these work properly. In > particular, the RealTek card gets detected and pretends to work, but loses > the link after a bit (The link status LED goes out, and I need to reboot the > box.) > > I'll be happy to try out patches for the lnc driver to fix the problem of > the Deskpro, or to give remote access to it if you want to work on it. > > Kees Jan -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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