Subject: Re: QEC Ethernet
To: Allen Wittenauer <allenw@iobm.com>
From: Simon Raahauge DeSantis <xiamin@ghostpriest.rakis.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/30/1998 10:12:34
On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 06:44:34AM -0800, Allen Wittenauer wrote:
> 
> > The QEC is supported by OpenBSD, porting the driver should be trivial.
> 
> If it is a 10/100 card, then it is really a qfe, not a qec... 
> 

The initial sbus probe and NetBSD both id it as qec. Of course, to me
they're both just three letters. ;)

> > > I recently (today) got an ethernet card for my IPX (so I'd have two
> > > interfaces). Much to my dismay I discovered that it wasn't supported
> > > by NetBSD (at least in 1.3.2). The dmesg output on it is this:
> > > qec at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0x20000 not configured
> > > Is there any hope for getting this thing working under NetBSD? It's a
> > > combo 10/100 base-T card, but I only need 10 base-T if it makes a
> > > difference.

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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis