Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:10:49 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FDDI cards in -current Message-ID: <200003161610.LAA62990@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200003161556.e2GFuX133412@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> References: <200003160918.KAA08436@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <200003161556.e2GFuX133412@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov>
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<<On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:56:33 -0800, bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) said: > Here's what's supported: > fpa(4), fea(4) - Device Drivers for DEC FDDI Controllers > fpa is a PCI card, fea is EISA. Note that finding any FDDI hardware these days is getting to be quite expensive. The manufacturers of FDDI silicon announced late last year that they were no longer accepting new orders for the chips, so once the current inventory is used up, there will be no more FDDI products available on the original-sale market (i.e., new). There appear to be a couple of DEFEA's available for sale on eBay, and one lot of two DEFPA's. The original poster is probably better off getting a used FDDI-Fast Ethernet bridge, and running his router Ethernet-only. ObCurrent: I'd be more willing to trust a good, maintained Fast Ethernet driver, like dc(4) or fxp(4), than a rusty FDDI driver. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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