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Date:      Thu, 06 Aug 1998 19:50:44 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody have... 
Message-ID:  <199808070250.TAA11170@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 22:24:24 EDT." <199808070224.WAA26430@whizzo.transsys.com> 

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>> You're probably thinking of the 82586.  The 82593 is an old low-power
>> device, used in eg. the Wavelan PCCARD adapters and some IBM notebooks.
>> (I don't think that Garrett wrote the PCCARD Wavelan 
>> driver.)
>> 
>> It seems laughable to me that Intel wouldn't be able to offer a
>> datasheet on such a part, when you can still get datasheets on the 8255.
>> 
>> It's not clear whether the datasheet for the 82595 would shed any light 
>> on what you're currently trying to work out, but it's worth a stab.
>
>As I recall at the time, we looked at the 82595 datasheets, and it's a
>bit of a different animal.  The 82593 presumes the laptop sort of environment,
>along with a dedicated DMA controllers that's configured in "wrap" mode.

   Jim Binkley <jrb@cs.pdx.edu> wrote a FreeBSD driver for the WaveLAN.
Perhaps that will be of some use to you (whoever it was that first asked)...

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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