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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATM NICs Date: 5 Sep 1996 18:18:53 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 25 Message-ID: <50nn4t$bnv@plains.nodak.edu> References: <MPG.c968e4b64c0acd7989680@netnews.ntc.nokia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <MPG.c968e4b64c0acd7989680@netnews.ntc.nokia.com>, James Card <james.card@ntc.nokia.com> wrote: >Does anyone know if there are any ATM NIC card drivers >available for FreeBSD? I have a PC with a ISA and >PCI bus (Compaq Deskpro) http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/FAQ/ATM-FAQ/f/f6.htm#f6 talks about a stack available to universities, but it requires a EISA NIC code from Fore and has nonprofit restriction. We started a driver for the IDT PCI NIC. This card is a demo card for the IDT SAR and is cheap realitive to the commerical NICs. I just found out in the last couple days that the card will lockup when the machine has a Neptune PCI chipset. Therefore a machine with a Triton or neweer PCI chipset will be required for this card (and I think you will find that to be common for all the new ATM cards). We are just in the begining phases of this driver, so it will be several months before anything will hit the net. This is a chance for some suckers, I mean developers, to get in on the ground floor of the project. Subscribe to freebsd-atm (echo "subscribe freebsd-atm" | mail majordomo@freebsd.org), right now there is hardly any traffic. --mark.