Subject: Re: DE205 supported in NetBSD?
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: William Wanders <william@tunix.kun.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/19/1997 13:46:19
> At 08:18 PM 6/12/97 -0400, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >I now have a working DEC EtherWORKS III driver for NetBSD.  It uses the
> >bus_* stuff and should be MI.  I've only created an ISA attachment for 
> >now.  (I'll do the EISA one in a day or two).  It seems to run fine under
> >NetBSD/i386 1.2D.  It should work under NetBSD/alpha (that's the point
> >of MI drivers).  However, my NetBSD/alpha machine only has a TurboChannel
> >so I can't test it.
> 
> I compiled an Alpha kernel today and got some warnings.  I also improved
> the receive and transmit speed by 50% and 10% respectively and decreased
> the system overhead by half.  I also fixed up the ifmedia support so it's
> cleaner.
> 
> >The driver is at http://www.3am-software.com/lc-970612.tar.gz and should
> >be untarred into your src tree.  lc.diffs contains a patch for 
> >sys/conf/files and sys/dev/isa/files.isa.  It also has a sample 
> >config line at the front.
> 
> I screwed up last night and put up a wrongly named file on the web server.
> Today's is http://www.3am-software.com/lc-970613.tar.gz
> 
> I promise I'm not going to look at this driver any more this weekend!
> -- 
> Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
> 3am Software Foundry      WWW URL:    http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html
> Westford, MA              Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message

I've compiled in the lc driver and except for some
unaligned access messages everything seems to be
working normally. Thank you for this quick solution
to my problem.

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