Subject: Re: Fore PCA-200E ATM support?
To: Greg Mans <gmans@packetcom.com>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/24/2000 22:43:16
In some email I received from Greg Mans, sie wrote:
> 
> I am running NetBSD 1.4.1 on a Pentium machine primarily to exploit the iso
> stack (using IS-IS in GateD).  Yesterday, I was handed this shiny new Fore
> PCA-200E ATM card.  With reckless abandon, I took the machine down and
> slapped the card in.  On boot, I saw an autoconfig message roll by... NetBSD
> detected the card, but didn't configure it.  That's when I realized some
> research should have been done first.  Under NIC support, NetBSD only lists
> Efficient Networks EN-155 and Adaptec AIC-590x ATM cards.
> 
> Does anybody have any quick ideas (short of trading the card)?  I see this
> card is allegedly supported by FreeBSD. It came with drivers for nearly
> everything except the BSD family.

There are also SBUS variants of this card - I'm using two 200E's between
an SS5 and SS10 running Solaris - so please keep this in mind whilst getting
it up and running.  If you get somewhere with it, I'm happy to test one
of the cards I've got under NetBSD/SPARC.

Darren