Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-18 Thread Sue Blake
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:27:31PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: If there are people who are cleaning up the support for older network cards in FreeBSD I'd like to help out by sending you my old NICs. It's not like they're any good to me without OS support. Please contact me off-list for any

Re: More detail on Deskpro XL6200 NIC (was: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD)

2000-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Dear Bill, others, I've been working on getting my Deskpros to use their NIC under 4.2, but no luck. The problem is as follows: I installed 4.0, and the NIC came up under the lnc driver, reports its MAC address and works fine. [...]

RE: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-14 Thread Koster, K.J.
Ok, "seem to have lost support" is about the vaguest thing you could have said. I've killed people for less. I'm too young to die. Sorry for the lack of detail. I should have known better. Please explain in detail how you arrived at the conclusion that the card was no longer supported.

Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). What is the newest version of FreeBSD that will propely support that

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Koster, K.J." wrote: Dear All, Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). What is the newest version of FreeBSD

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Koster, K.J." writes: : 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this : DEC EtherworksISA : DEC DE205 ISA don't know about these. lnc driver supports them maybe ? : SMC EtherEZ ISA ed driver. : RealTek "TP-Link"

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Dear All, Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). Ok,

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Nate Williams
: 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) : DEC EtherworksISA : DEC DE205 ISA don't know about these. lnc

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
: 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) You are probably confusing it with the 501 or 505. The 503 is basically an NE1000

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Nate Williams
: 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) You are probably confusing it with the 501 or 505. The 503 is basically

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: : 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) How difficult is it to check the source?