Subject: Re: Help with getting a Farallon Fast EtherTX-10/100 Nubus NIC Working?
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
From: Brian Heath <brians_lists@bkheath.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/02/2003 12:32:38
Yes... That's exactly it. The Chip is a "3com 40-0196". Do you expect to get
a chance to finish that any time soon? Or is there something that I can do
to help with it?

Thanks for the reply!

Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Briggs" <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
To: "Brian Heath" <brians_lists@bkheath.com>
Cc: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Help with getting a Farallon Fast EtherTX-10/100 Nubus NIC
Working?


> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:21:06PM -0500, Brian Heath wrote:
> > I just picked up one of these cards pretty cheap, and would like to see
if I
> > can get it working. The only problem is, I don't have much of an idea
where
> > to start. Can someone point me in the right direction or at least point
me
> > to a FAQ that may help me to write a driver for this ethernet card.
Better
> > yet, has anyone else already been working on this card?
>
> I think this is the one that I looked at most recently.  Does it have a
> "Parallel Tasking" 3Com chip on it?  If so, that's got the 3Com PCI ROM
> stashed in the Nubus configuration ROM.  I found the time to get that
> far in looking at it, but didn't complete the glue to glue the nubus
> attachment into the 'ep' driver.
>
> -allen
>
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