Subject: Re: PIC NIC for SparcUltra5
To: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
From: Mr Mine Sakiyama <msakiyam@yahoo.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/14/2002 07:33:50
Thank you! Let me get started on install right away. 

Mine
--- grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:19:48PM -0800, Mr Mine
> Sakiyama wrote:
> 
> > I am thinking about installing NetBSD on
> SparcUltra5
> > workstation to use as IPFilter/NAT firewall. I
> read
> > that you could use some PCI NIC on Ultra5 , if you
> use
> > NetBSD (I cannot afford Sun PCI cards..) Do you
> have
> > recommendation for any cards that are known to
> work?
> > Also it is required that PROM sees the card for it
> to
> > function properly in NetBSD?
> 
> No, any PCI card supported by a machine-independant
> driver will work
> in NetBSD, though you may not be able to boot from
> it. You can find
> a list of those here:
> 
> 	http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html
> 
> There are quite a few :)
> 
> I've succesfully used fxp, tlp and rtk PCI ethernet
> cards in an
> Ultra 10.
> 
> grant.
> 


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