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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: searching for if_vx device driver author (FreeBSD 2.1.6)
Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:12:32 GMT
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"Marc E. Fiuczynski" <mef@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking for the author(s) of the 3COM 3c59X/3c90X ethernet driver
> that has made its way into FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE. After some minor
> hacking I've gotten it to work with a 3c905 card, and I'd like to
> share with the author some of my findings.
Sorry to say, but you're probably too late now. The old author seems
to have gone many moons before, but somebody else recently took a stab
on it, and it's really in a much better shape now:
revision 1.2
date: 1996/11/04 22:17:17; author: guido; state: Exp; lines: +145 -0
branches: 1.2.2;
New vx driver for:
3COM 3C590 Etherlink III PCI,
3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink PCI,
3COM 3C592 Etherlink III EISA,
3COM 3C590 Fast Etherlink EISA,
3COM 3C900 Etherlink XL PCI and
3COM 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI.
This driver is based on OpenBSD's driver. I modified it to run under FreeBSd
and made it actually work usefully.
Afterwards, nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki) added EISA support as well as
early support for 3C900 Etherlink XL PCI and 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI.
He also split up the driver in a bus independant and bus dependant parts.
Especially the 3c59X support should be pretty stable now.
Submitted by: partly nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki)
Obtained from:partly OpenBSD
This code also made it into the 2.2 branch, so the updated driver will
be available in 2.2R.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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