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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!uknet!cf-cm!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: my bug list Message-ID: <1993Mar30.133932.25367@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: 30 Mar 93 13:39:30 GMT References: <C3zn9C.GDx@flatlin.ka.sub.org> <DERAADT.93Mar26160807@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Mar29.142429.12369@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1993Mar29.144932.23840@uvm.edu> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: /usr/local/lib/rn/organisation Lines: 32 In article <1993Mar29.144932.23840@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes: >In article <1993Mar29.142429.12369@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: >>Unlike the western digital cards there isn't >>even an id so you can see if it's actually an isolan. > >And then he writes: > >>These cards have a >>sixteen byte area of rom which contains the ethernet address and two >>ports which are used to access the Lance registers. > >Ummm, you're contradicting yourself, Paul. If it has an Ethernet >address on it, then it has an ID so you can see if it's actually an ><X>. Every Ethernet/802.3 address ever assigned has 24 bits of vendor >ID in it. Yes, I thought of using the ethernet address vendor id BUT isolan produce two types of cards, one which uses DMA and one which uses shared memory. I don't have any shared memory cards so I've never been able to check but I assumed the vendor id would be the same. Perhaps someone could tell me what the ethernet address of one of these cards is. So the comparison to western digital cards still holds, yes I could confirm it was made by BICC or whoever owns these cards now but I still wouldn't know if it was the correct card for the driver. I did spend some time trying to find a way of uniquely identifying these cards but no-one seemed to have a good solution. -- Paul Richards, University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk