Subject: re: 100mbs ether on sparc 5
To: Joel N. Weber II <devnull@gnu.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/09/1999 12:10:32
   
   SUNW,hme at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x8c00000 level 4 (ipl 7) not configured
   
   which is a 100mbs ether interface.  It works under Solaris.  Why does
   netbsd 1.4 not support it?


well, sun make solaris.  you'd hope they'd support their own hardware.


netbsd doesn't support it because the driver isn't written!  actually,
that's not entirely true these days but it isn't quite finished yet
(and it not part of 1.4 in any case).  i hope to have a driver for
this card working soon, but there are no promises on when.. (the hme
very similar to the `network' in the Ultra5/Ultra10 boxes, the main
difference being pci rather than sbus).