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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!sloth.swcp.com!news.dgsys.com!tahiti.netreach.net!news1.digex.net!news.BLaCKSMITH.com!root From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cogent EM110TX cards Date: 5 Nov 1996 19:18:13 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <55o3tl$hq3@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <55luh6$ost@BLaCKSMITH.com> Reply-To: leo@blacksmith.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.242.144.65 Jeff Sickel writes > Does anyone know how to get the Cogent EM110 TX cards to be usable on > FreeBSD? Yes. Get a driver that understands the current revision. > It's based on the DEC 21140 chip and 'appears' to be visible durring What does based on mean? Does this mean that the card loosely interprets the chipset? > booting, but nothing ever works even though routing tables are correct, Hmm. Do you have a driver that supports the changes made to the 'node_id_prompt_format' on the card? This was changed to more completely (maybe fully) conform to DEC's standards. > the cards ip/ethernet address is pingable and whatnot... So then how do you know your routing tables are correct? Or maybe, since the current driver supports all but the latest revision of the card, the loopback part of the driver still works perfectly for the newer cards and it's just the LINK1 and LINK2 stuff that broke. Either way, it sounds to me like you haven't really done any looking into this. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXTmail OK) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+