Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:00:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? Message-ID: <199807262100.OAA15891@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199807261711.KAA10890@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 26, 98 10:11:14 am
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> > >Howdy; a straightforward question: FreeBSD Test Labs is looking for a > > >source for a PCI card or cards using the AMD PCNet and/or PCNet/FAST > > >chips. (Am79c97x etc.) > > > > http://www.amd.com/products/npd/overview/19433f.pdf > > So nobody manufactures an adapter featuring the PC-Net FAST device? > That's kinda depressing. 8( There is a Taiwanese clone board with a Cyrix "Media GX" that comes with an AMD PCNet chip on it. I believe Compaq builds a machine with an AMD PCNet/SCSI chip on it: both the networking chip and the SCSI interface. The SCSI interface is pretty primitive (ie: not very high powered). The PCNet part, as anoyone who has read the chip specs should know, is just a LANCE ethernet chip. The main problem for LANCE parts is recognizing them because they can live a lot of places and require a desctructive probe (you have to make them interrupt to detect them, unless the chip is on a board with a known ROM). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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