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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!tyo2.gate.nec!newssv1.ho.nec!newsserv.cl.nec!sbl.cl.nec!newsmasters@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp From: nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (Naoki Hamada) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with 3c590 Date: 11 Jul 1996 13:58:06 +0900 Organization: NEC Corporation Lines: 19 Sender: nao@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp Distribution: world Message-ID: <uppw63croh.fsf@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp> References: <4rf9u3$7vp@news.uit.no> <4rl1vb$u3@anorak.coverform.lan> <4rt0bd$4fl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s0hqt$a6@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp In-reply-to: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 10 Jul 1996 16:22:05 +0100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.15 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : The `vx' driver is, umm, suboptimal in design and implementation. NetBSD's support for Etherlink III and FastEtherlink is unified in an elegant scheme. (No bus master mode, yet.) I think FreeBSD's support for them can be unified as well. Brian Somers wrote: >I'm actually using the nep driver (similar to ep) from the guys in Japan. >Somebody sent me email saying that this was the correct thing to do - I >tried it, but I'd almost bet that I wrote I transferred NetBSD's ep driver into FreeBSD and named it nep. It was for the internal test of the 3C589 PCMCIA Etherlink III, and I integrated it into ep (see ep of FreeBSD-current), so nep is now obsolete. Yes, it was originally for 3C589 and not for 3C590. Someone added something to nep? -nao