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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:40:35 -0600 (CST)
From:      Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>
Cc:        James Lim <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg>, HXL <hxl@cumt.edu.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Emergcy! Consult! 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1001114154014.14951o-100000@y.cops.wamnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200011142117.eAELHOO04492@peedub.muc.de>

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This worked for my Netfinity 4500R with the 79c975 chipset. 

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Lee Carmichael		WAM!NET Inc.
System Engineer		655 Lone Oak Rd Building E
651-256-5292		Eagan, MN 55121

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> "James Lim" writes:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> >             It seems that the closest card that is supported in 4.1.1 =
> > will be the following:
> > 
> > AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
> > 
> > I am not sure whether the others have managed to get 79c975 working, but 
> =
> > actually is it possible to change the card?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > James Lim
> >   ----- Original Message -----=20
> >   From: HXL=20
> >   To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20
> >   Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:14 PM
> >   Subject: Emergcy! Consult!
> > 
> > 
> >   Dear freeBSD managers:
> >       This is Xuzhou city,jiangsu province,China,computer network =
> > center.We have just bought four IBM netfinity PC server,and they have =
> > alreay plug in fixed NIC(AMD's 10/100M Ethernet card,AM79C975),but these 
> =
> > cards do not support FreeBSD.After getting the latest version of =
> > FreeBSD(4.1.1) and installed,we find that the machine still support the =
> > NIC. We have consulted IBM and AMD,and there is no results,please give =
> > us some advices! emergcy! thanks you very mcuh.=20
> >                    Sincerely yours=20
> >                           houxiaoli
> > 
> 
> Try applying this modified patch from PR i386/19365 (which is assigned
> to me, but I haven't had time to commit it yet). Or upgrade to -current
> and use the pnc driver which already supports the AM79C975.
> 
> *** /sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.c.org	Mon Aug 30 01:07:22 1999
> - --- /sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.c	Wed Jun 14 18:32:12 2000
> ***************
> *** 151,156 ****
> - --- 151,157 ----
>   	"PCnet-PCI II",
>   	"PCnet-FAST",
>   	"PCnet-FAST+",
> + 	"PCnet-FAST III",
>   };
>   
>   static void lnc_setladrf __P((struct lnc_softc *sc));
> ***************
> *** 1192,1197 ****
> - --- 1193,1200 ----
>   				return (PCnet_FAST);
>   			case Am79C972:
>   				return (PCnet_FASTplus);
> + 			case Am79C975:
> + 				return (PCnet_FAST_III);
>   			default:
>   				break;
>   			}
> <---- END <---- END <---- END <---- END <----
> 
> #Patch for if_lnc.h
> - ---->start---->start---->start---->staet----->
> *** /sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.h.org	Mon Aug 30 01:07:23 1999
> - --- /sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.h	Wed Jun 14 18:33:19 2000
> ***************
> *** 107,112 ****
> - --- 107,113 ----
>   #define PCnet_PCI_II    8        /* Am79C970A */
>   #define PCnet_FAST      9        /* Am79C971 */
>   #define PCnet_FASTplus  10       /* Am79C972 */
> + #define PCnet_FAST_III  11       /* Am79C973, Am79C975 */
>   
>   /* CSR88-89: Chip ID masks */
>   #define AMD_MASK  0x003
> ***************
> *** 119,124 ****
> - --- 120,127 ----
>   #define Am79C970A 0x2621
>   #define Am79C971  0x2623
>   #define Am79C972  0x2624
> + #define Am79C973  0x2625
> + #define Am79C975  0x2627
>   
>   /* Board types */
>   #define UNKNOWN         0
> 
> - ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org
> 
> 
> 
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