On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:43:11AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:

 > # Does it means that my Network adapter (Intel PRO/100 VE) is not able to run
 > # under NetBSD ?
 > 
 > 1.5 does not support the fxp0 in the install kernel.
 > A GENERIC kernel will support it.

Uhh... WHAT?!  No, the INSTALL kernel definitely supports the "fxp"
(i82557, etc.) network cards.  They're far too common to no support
them in the base installation kernels.

 > fxp0 supports, as far as I can tell, the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100,
 > the Pro/100 VE and the 82552 on-board NICs; probably more.

The problem here is that the *original* PRO/100 was a completely different
chip than the i82557 and later chips (PRO/100B, PRO/100+, PRO/100S,
InBusiness, etc.)

As far as I know, there are no open-source operating systems that support
the original PRO/100 -- as I understand it, programming documentation is
basically impossible to come by, the chip doens't perform very well, and
boards that have it are somewhat rare.

I would guess that Jimmy has an *original* PRO/100 -- Jimmy -- can you
pull the board, look for the big'ish chip (which would be the Ethernet
MAC) and reply to this mail with the numbers on the top of the chip?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>