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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lkg.dec.com!thomas From: thomas@lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: FreeBSD DEC EtherWORKS Driver available Date: 5 Aug 1994 22:58:54 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 31 Sender: thomas@netrix.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas) Distribution: world Message-ID: <31ug7e$7jo@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> Reply-To: thomas@lkg.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: netrix.lkg.dec.com X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-16 I have a written a driver for the DEC EtherWORKS II and DEC EtherWORKS III NICs for FreeBSD V1.1 or later. It supports BPF and IP Multicast. If you are interested in running it, send me mail and I'll send it to you. It's known to work on the DE200/DE201/DE202 (EtherWORKS II) and the DE203/DE204/DE205 (EtherWORKS III) boards. I'm still trying to get it running on the DE422 (EISA). It should work on the DEPCA and DE100 cards but I don't any to test with. On a DECpc XL i486/66d2, a DE202 configured for 32KB of shared RAM gets over 800KB/s receive and transmit thruput (measured via ttcp). Since this is a 16-bit non-DMA ISA card, I'm limited by the memory bandwidth of the ISA bus. On the same PC, a DE205-AB gets just about the same performance. This driver does not support the new DE425 (EISA) and DE435 (PCI) EtherWORKS controllers (yet). I expect to finish the support for them with a month or two. And after that, who knows? Maybe an FDDI driver and FDDI support. [Note that writing Ethernet drivers for FreeBSD is my hobby and not my job. Digital in no way responsible for any corruption, damage or any other bad things that may happen as a result of using these drivers. And neither am I.] -- Matt Thomas Internet: thomas@lkg.dec.com U*X Networking WWW URL: http://ftp.dec.com/%7Ethomas/ Digital Equipment Corporation Disclaimer: This message reflects my Littleton, MA own warped views, etc.