Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:12:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: afuchs@totum.plaut.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Integrated Netflex Ethernet Card (fwd) Message-ID: <199704292012.WAA20646@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Stefan Esser's message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:32:51 %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970429182709.1944B-100000@totum.plaut.de> <19970429203217.10037@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> <199704291918.VAA20566@bitbox.follo.net> <19970429213251.62970@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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> > On Apr 29, Eivind Eklund <eivind@bitbox.follo.net> wrote: > > of PCI 2, and wasn't detected without kernel patches until at least > > No, the lack of full support for the PCI Lance > is caused by calling conventions in the network > code of 2.1.x, which were to ISA centric ... > It has nothing to do with PCI 2! Hm. I'm fairly certain I tested the network card without doing the PCI fix, and it wouldn't work. PCI wasn't initialized at all until I brought in a kernel file from 2.2. With this, I was able to use the NCR on-board SCSI controller and Lance network interface, making the machine a very nice and stable server. It might be that I never tested the network card until I had the disk working; I got the info for how to fix both from the same place, and it is a year ago. > > 2.1.6, possibly 2.1.7. I've run one of those cards since 2.1.0 - work > > quite OK. (Reception errors on a moderately loaded Ethernet about 5 > > times a day, causing a retransmitted packet. About 1MB/s for SMB > > transfers - quite OK :) > > The ISA Lance driver works fine with these chips, > once you manually configured the driver to use > the attach address(es) selected by the PCI BIOS. The default attach address is the one specified as lnc1 in the GENERIC kernel. FlexNet should be picked up as lnc1 as default (or did with me, anyway.) Eivind.
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