"Koster, K.J." wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release
> to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the
> on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus).
>
> What is the newest version of FreeBSD that will propely support that card?
>
> If there are people who are cleaning up the support for older network cards
> in FreeBSD I'd like to help out by sending you my old NICs. It's not like
> they're any good to me without OS support.
>
> Please contact me off-list for any of the following cards:
>
> 3Com 3c503 ISA
should be ok with the ed driver, for correct values of irq and io range
> DEC Etherworks ISA
> DEC DE205 ISA
> SMC EtherEZ ISA
ditto
> RealTek "TP-Link" PCI
>
> As far as I've been able to determine, none of these work properly. In
> particular, the RealTek card gets detected and pretends to work, but loses
> the link after a bit (The link status LED goes out, and I need to reboot the
> box.)
>
> I'll be happy to try out patches for the lnc driver to fix the problem of
> the Deskpro, or to give remote access to it if you want to work on it.
>
> Kees Jan
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Thierry Herbelot
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