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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!geertj From: geertj@ripe.net (Geert Jan de Groot) Subject: Re: EtherLink III Parallel Tasking PCI Bus Master Adapter and BSD 2.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: belegen.ripe.net Message-ID: <DE1qxI.FB5@inter.NL.net> Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at news) Organization: RIPE Network Coordination Centre References: <4133v5$v9h@ns.neptune.com> <41mgsv$5ui@fountain.mindlink.net> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:34:29 GMT Lines: 15 In <41mgsv$5ui@fountain.mindlink.net> daniel <daniel_lai@mindlink.bc.ca> writes: >I tried using it before on BSDI 2.0 and it doesn't work. The 3C59x series are 'similar' but different enough from the 3C5x9 adapters that the supplied driver can't work. Making it work takes some time, it is not very difficult. I'm not shure what I should think of these cards - I have the 595 working, except for the 'busmaster' DMA facility which is a bitch to program. I didn't test 100Mb mode either because I only have one PCI machine. Geert Jan