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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: 3C900 (EtherLink XL) and FreeBSD ???
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:38:59 UTC
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nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>tsingle@sunbaked.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tim Singletary) writes:
>>I just got an EtherLink XL -- 3C900 -- ethernet card. I'd like to use
>>it with FreeBSD but I haven't seen any indication that FreeBSD
>>supports this card.
>It does, but you have to patch the vx0 driver so that it recognizes
>it. I submitted this patch to the FreeBSD gnats collection. Go look
>(on www.freebsd.org) for it. It's, like, two lines.
It's PR 1727.
*** if_vx.c.orig Sat Oct 5 00:42:10 1996
--- if_vx.c Sat Oct 5 00:42:59 1996
***************
*** 170,175 ****
--- 170,177 ----
pcici_t config_id,
pcidi_t device_id)
{
+ if(device_id == 0x900010b7ul)
+ return "3Com 3c900 EtherLink III PCI";
if(device_id == 0x590010b7ul)
return "3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI";
if(device_id == 0x595010b7ul || device_id == 0x595110b7ul ||
>>Does FreeBSD (2.1.5 or the 2.2 snapshots) support this card?
>My patch is relative to 2.2-960804-SNAP, but it really should
>be the same for any other rev with a vx driver.
>> And if
>>not, is anyone working on it?
>There's no work to do. The 3c900 and 3c590 are the same except
>for the contents of the 'what am I?' PCI register.
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