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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!floyd.sw.oz.au!not-for-mail From: nickw@sw.oz.au (Nicholas Waples) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Compaq PROSIGNA 300? Date: 18 Jun 1996 23:20:48 GMT Organization: Softway Pty Ltd Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4q7dkg$dok@floyd.sw.oz.au> References: <tsohmon72t.fsf@pousm.po.usbw> <31C0B611.24663B4E@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: suede.sw.oz.au X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] J Wunsch (j@ida.interface-business.de) wrote: > cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) wrote: > > > >If BSDI supports LANCE, it supports this chip. > > > > Terry, its not a matter of if BSDI supports the chipset or not, its a > > matter if the Compaq BIOS will ALLOW BSDI to ACCESS the card, and it > > will not. > > Since when does BSD/OS run with BIOS support? > > > Read my original post. > > I did. Didn't get me further. > > I've actually used a PCnet-based machine last week with FreeBSD. > FreeBSD doesn't have a PCI driver for these chips either, but once I > knew its port address (which can vary depending whether other PCI > cards are around), the existing Lance driver worked indeed fine. This > was with an HP Vectra, but i don't see a big difference in the brand > of the machine. I simply didn't even ask the BIOS whether it would > allow my BSD to access the ethernet card. <:) > > -- > J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer > joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j > Well I had the onboard ethernet partially working on BSDI 2.1. I just had to tell it the port address to probe, and it recognised it ok. The only problem was that it had regular framing errors, but otherwise it did at least seem to work (not that I really tested it much, I just stuck in another card instead). Nick.