>I recently heard about the "Diamond HomeFree" network cards that provide >an ethernet interface running on a traditional in-home phone system. They >supposedly situation an ethernet-style layer in one of the free frequency >ranges, and make use of an AMD chip to do this (mentioned in title). I >note that we have an AMD drive that, according to the 3.2 release notes, >supports 'AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)'. These numbers are >pretty similar -- does anyone know if the driver supports this card? If >not, anyone have information on whom I might contact at AMD to get specs >to modify our driver to support it (I assume that it probably has a prety >similar interface). The AMD chip is the only one, pretty much, on the PCI >card so I assume it's the only relevant component.
The data sheet is available on AMD's web site. Try http://www.amd.com/products/npd/techdocs/22206.pdf >I head in this direction as I just discovered the wall I planned to drop >UTP down to get to our ADSL modem in the basement is not going to be happy >holding cables :-), and there are existing phone lines all over the place. >The propaganda on the back says it can handle up to a megabit, which is >pretty decent; the bumf also claims it coexists happily with existing >phone service and xDSL at the same time. Robert Swindells ------------------------------------- Robert Swindells - GenRad Ltd r...@genrad.co.uk - Work r...@fdy2.demon.co.uk - Home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
