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From: chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATM NIC support ?
Date: 21 Mar 1997 08:42:23 -0600
Organization: Washington University,  St. Louis MO.
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In article <01bc35c1$24f75340$214f96cd@reality>,
Kurt Schafer <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> wrote:
>Any comments on FreeBSD's support for any ATM NIC's ?

Sure.  Last I checked, FreeBSD doesn't support ATM NICs.

However, I have written glue and a driver for Efficient Networks (ENI)'s 
ATM cards which is a standard part of NetBSD/OpenBSD.   I recently added
support to the driver for Adaptec PCI ATM cards as well (e.g. the ANA-5940).

I have managed to port this driver to FreeBSD [with some help from
Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>] and you can obtain the source code
for it from ftp://dworkin.wustl.edu/dist/bsd/bsdatm1.4.tar.gz.  There
are a number of groups using the driver under FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD project is aware of this driver, but lacks the interest or
manpower to integrate it in their source tree.    

chuck
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>>Chuck Cranor, Graduate Student, Computer and Communications Research Center<<
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