Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:54:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NE2000 Plus not probed correctly? Message-ID: <199605210424.NAA24987@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960520235202.1359c-100000@zot.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at May 20, 96 11:59:09 pm
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Brian Tao stands accused of saying: > > On Tue, 21 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > Odd. Can you see if you can find out what the blob on the card is > > (ie. is it an 83C90, or someone's clone?) > > This is what I got back from Ean (the fellow with the cards): > > | Here are the numbers I found on the card: > | n82s123n Address decoder perhaps? > | m5m5165fp (two of them with the samsung logo on them) Memory chips. > | dl3516a (big chip in the middle of the board) Hmm. 'big' as in 'big and square', or big as in 'big and rectangular and tall'? (It's either a custom blob or the +5 to -9V converter). > | dp83910an > | dp8392c These sound like the meat; I don't have a card here in my pile (just checked) with an 83910 on it, so I can't try it out. Anyone else got one of these? > | 16r4bcn Glue logic. > The "dp83910an" and "dp8392c" look significant? Yup. The latter is the 'line driver' part, but I'm fairly sure the former is an 8390 superset part. At any rate, I don't think it's an oddball; the 'dp' prefix is NatSemi's current one for their parts. It should have a sort of oval-shaped 'N' on it as well if this is the case. Well, it looks like we can rule out 'busted hardware' and go for 'weird or not-quite-compatible' instead. 8( Short of building up a kernel with more debugging turned on in the 'ed' driver, I'm at a bit of a dead-end here, sorry. David, as the 'ed' guru, do you have any ideas? > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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