Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
w and you weren't before, then you changed something. Stands to reason, doesn't it? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wp...@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for

Call for testers: Adaptec AIC-6915 fast ethernet driver

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Paul
a little, the sooner it will go into the tree. No user-servicable parts inside. Offer void where prohibited by law. Operators are standing by. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Mast

Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et

1999-07-21 Thread Bill Paul
!<%k$7$?$N$G$9$,!"(B > NIC$B!'!!(BDEC 21143-based > $B$H%S%G%*%+!<%I!'(bsis5598$...@_dj$,$&$^$/$$$-$^$;$s!"8=:_(B > $BF0$+$7$F$k(B > $BJ}$,$$$i$7$?$i65$($F$/$...@$5$$!#(B I can't read this either. :( -Bill -- ==

Update on Adaptec AIC-6915 "starfire" driver

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
is into the -current branch soon. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wp...@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Paul
SD driver: I mean an example which will actually work in FreeBSD). The fxp, xl, sf, sk, ti and other drivers have been newbused and use bus master DMA; hopefully these should provide decent examples. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Charles Randall had to walk into mine and say: > Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards. > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ > > FYI, > Charles > > -Original Message--

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, David Malone had to walk into mine and say: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 06:43:24PM -0400, Bill Paul wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, I thought I saw that you could get Intel > Etherexpress 1Gb/s cards. Do these exist and if s

Call for testers, new driver, blah blah blah...

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Paul
x soon, and st is still used there. As usual, report problems or send large bags of cash to wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu. I plan to merge this driver into the -current branch just as soon as I can whip up a man page for it. Share and enjoy! -Bill -- ====

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
at's better.) Is it possible to cram all this stuff into one driver? Well, sure: the Linux tulip driver does it, although I can't say whether or not the Linux driver handles all of the supported cards correctly all of the time. Could you do it? Sure, why not. Could *I* do it? I don

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
27;m going to migrate support for the genuine DEC > chips, as well. If you can actually get it all to work and retain some portion of your sanity, I'll be mighty impressed. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-08 Thread Bill Paul
I could buy a board in the U.S., since I already had the datasheet (the AL981 sheet is on their server). They turned out to be really eager to help me and sent me two cards directly. Again, I have to grope through my back e-mail to find the name of the guy I spoke too, but you can easily

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-08 Thread Bill Paul
a pretty cruddy DMA engine. > > Davicom ... Winbond-like? No, the Davicom DM9102 is a pretty close copy of the tulip: it uses the setup frame mechanism for programming the RX filter. You can find the datasheet at http://www.davicom8.com. They also have a Linux driver up there somewhere (it's ki

Call for testers: Aironet wireless adapters

1999-09-14 Thread Bill Paul
be done with the ancontrol utility (i.e. ancontrol -i an0 -n "MY_NETWORK"). As usual, report problems or send free large bags of cash to wp...@skynet.columbia.edu. Include lots of details. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-28 Thread Bill Paul
ort to submit, then fine: let's hear it. But if you just want to make vague and unsubstantiated complaints, do me a favor and just keep it to yourself. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | Sy

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-28 Thread Bill Paul
n everyone else will go insane instead of me, society will collapse, and I can take over the world while everyone's distracted! You know if they ever find a way to harness sarcasm as an energy source, you people are all going to owe me big. -Bill -- ===

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Bill Paul
! More than that, your boss would be pretty pissed off too! So, tell me: just how many of you other people reading this have been having problems with 'drivers under load' and couldn't be bothered to actually report the problem? Hm? Well what're you waiting for?! Go on: spea

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-31 Thread Bill Paul
shing, I can't really help you with that. You also didn't explain exactly what you meant by 'crash.' Does it just lock up completely (mouse doesn't move)? Does it 'panic' with a 'blue screen of death' (register dump)? Does the machine keep working but

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-31 Thread Bill Paul
ot; Tell me *EXACTLY* what appears on the console (or if!) it crashes, word for word. Not your interpretation of what it says: *EXACTLY* what it says. And you still haven't explained what you meant about the LoseNT machine crashing before. -Bill --

Using newbus to hang a custom bus off a device

1999-05-31 Thread Bill Paul
ve a higher priority than the generic one, thereby forcing the specific probes to be called first? -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wp...@ctr.colu

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-06-01 Thread Bill Paul
ve tcpdump running on the FreeBSD server and you still see traffic coming from the NT hosts, then the problem is that the FreeBSD server is receiving but not transmitting. In this case, you should do ifconfig xl0 and see if the OACTIVE flag is set. If it is, it means the driver has used up all it

Re: Q: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

1999-06-07 Thread Bill Paul
27;s nothing listening. Note: each mbuf cluster is 2K in size. 2 * 2048 == 40MB of RAM, so you better have a lot of memory in this server. If not, try something smaller. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6

Call for testers: SysKonnect gigabit ethernet driver

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Paul
new if_media.h is in place. If you have problems, please send them to wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu. Include lots of details. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix

PCCARD and Vpp voltage

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Paul
hen it needs to be turned on and do it only for those cards that need it? -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wp...@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications

patch for if_sis to support SiS630E, need testers

2001-02-08 Thread Bill Paul
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SiS/sis.diff This patch adds support for reading the station address from the ATC CMOS RAM for board with the SiS 630E chipset with integrated SiS 900 ethernet. I've verified that the patch compiles and doesn't make the system explode, and it should have no effect on

call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-08 Thread Bill Paul
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/4.x/fec.tar.gz http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/FEC/5.x/fec.tar.gz This is a call for testers for a netgraph module that can be used to aggregate 2 or 4 ethernet interfaces into a single interface. Basically, it lets you do things like the following: # kldload ./ng

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-02-09 Thread Bill Paul
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > Cool, if thats all it will take, I'll give it a try. But, whatever > > method Compaq/Intel is using doesn't require me to set up the ports on > > the switch as being part of a trunk. It "just works". A

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Paul
and it sucked, and not getting any support from the really big vendors or from inside BSDi doesn't make it any more appealing. All I can say is, Johnathan, I'm glad it's you and not me. And Dennis, you deserve a working driver. I really hope you get it. Part of me even wishes I co

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-09 Thread Bill Paul
> > I think its been mentioned several times in this and other threads that > intel has a driver for LINUX that is effective documentation on the board, > and the code is public (although you may have to stick an intel copyright > in the code also). Whoever mentioned this was not thinking cle

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > > Any chance this can be done through an async event rather > than by polling? If there was, I w

Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module

2001-03-10 Thread Bill Paul
> >> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > >> > >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather > >> than by polling?

Re: device driver dev. book

2001-03-16 Thread Bill Paul
> Some body just told me that williams Paul from Columbia University (Bill > Paul @ Freebsd.org) has written that > kind of book. But I can't get his exact email address at FreeBSD.org to > ask him the reference. GR. Look, I have not now nor have I *ever* written a

sendfile() vs. gigabit ethernet

2001-04-10 Thread Bill Paul
something obvious, as usual? -Bill = -Bill Paul(925) 691-2800 | Systems Programmer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | BSDi Open Source Solutions = "I like zees guys.

Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
Thanks to the nice people at SMC, I finally got my hands on a couple of gigE NICs and have a preliminary driver available for one of them. The if_nge driver supports the NatSemi DP83820 gigabit ethernet MAC, which is used on the EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX), the D-Link DFE-500T, the Asante FriendlyNet

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
> > Is there a POC we can all send thanks to for supplying the neccessary HW > and doco? Since they seem to be a more friendly company then Intel it > would do us well IMO to thank them for it. Actually, it was my contact at Intel who put me in touch with the right people at SMC. As for the docu

Re: Call for testers: NatSemi DP83821 gigE driver

2001-05-08 Thread Bill Paul
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > > > I sent a confirmation of receipt and thank you note to the SMC > > people today. I'm not sure if I should be posting their e-mail addresses > > all over the lists though. > > Perhaps in this type of situat

Re: Is 3COM 3C996-T supported via Alteon Driver?

2001-04-26 Thread Bill Paul
ting, but Intel (who now owns Level 1) finally agreed to let D-Link release it to me without NDA. Unfortunately, the BSDi/Wind River deal still hasn't quite closed yet, which is preventing me from ordering hardware. I'm doing as much of the gruntwork as I can, but I can't do actual testin

Re: sysKonnect dual gig adapter

2001-06-08 Thread Bill Paul
> Looking at the description of the sysKonnect dual adapter, its not clear if > this is a real 2 port nic or that the second port is only a failover port. I > have 2 questions for anyone who has one: > > 1) Can this be used as a 2 port gigabit NIC? Yes. You will have two interfaces, sk0 and sk

Re: IP checksum offloading with intel 82559 fast ethernet.

2000-06-21 Thread Bill Paul
> > Don't some of the Gigabit FreeBSD drivers actually utilize > > the on-board > > checksum processing??? FreeBSD 5.0-current has support for TCP/IP checksum offload, and the if_ti driver makes use of it. The Tigon NICs do this in firmware though. I attempted to add support to the SysKonnect d

Re: Multiple MAC addresses per NIC

2000-07-10 Thread Bill Paul
> Hello all, > > This issue was discussed last year, but I can't find any information on > a resolution. We're trying to create a high availability FreeBSD > cluster with a standby machine being able to take over for a failed host, > and need the standby machine to have its own MAC address, plus

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Bill Paul
> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I think the ep driver (which does some funny things to the eeprom) managed > > > to overwrite part of the eeprom so that the xl driver failed to recognize > > > the card. I then tried to add it to the vx driver (at that point i think > > > i started to know what i did)

Re: 3Com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet

2000-08-07 Thread Bill Paul
> AFAIK, this card is a 3Com OEM product which is not available for purchase, > all i can give you is an HP part number. It is also not a "normal" PCI card > but a so called "Mini PCI" card and its about as large as a matchbox or > even a bit smaller. > > Anyway, i have replaced the card, and i

Re: getpeereid() syscall patch for FreeBSD 4.0

2000-08-08 Thread Bill Paul
> * William E. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000808 09:27] wrote: > > A patch implementing a getpeereid() syscall in FreeBSD 4.0 is > > available at > > > > http://www.superscript.com/patches/freebsd_4_0.getpeereid > > > > A local-domain server uses getpeereid() to obtain client credentials. > > B

Re: RPC not taking the same service twice: a bug or a security measure?

2000-11-08 Thread Bill Paul
> A coworker seems to have found an issue with portmap on FreeBSD. > Aparently, if you try and register the same service twice, but with > different protocols (UDP vs TCP), it doesn't work. I'm not entirely sure > I believe this, and I am digging for more details, but I am writing to > see if anyo

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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). Ok,

Re: More detail on Deskpro XL6200 NIC (was: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD)

2000-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Dear Bill, others, > > I've been working on getting my Deskpros to use their NIC under 4.2, but no > luck. The problem is as follows: I installed 4.0, and the NIC came up under > the lnc driver, reports its MAC address and works fine. > [

Re: More detail on Deskpro XL6200 NIC (was: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD)

2000-11-16 Thread Bill Paul
Well this sucks. According to the manual, once you select 32-bit mode, the only way to get the chip back to 16-bit mode is a hardware reset. I suppose the quick fix for now is to not let if_pcn switch the chip into 32-bit mode during the probe routine. Please try the patch for if_pcn.c included wi

Re: Ethernet de driver problem on 3.5 stable

2000-11-23 Thread Bill Paul
> > I have run into an issue with the de driver and Dlink quad cards under > 3.5 stable. > > Despite the messages from the driver, claiming to be in full duplex, [...] > Is there a known problem with the Dlinks or is this a possible > issue in the driver? [...] > Probing for devices on PCI bus 2

Re: National Semiconductor 82c168/82c169 driver

2000-12-18 Thread Bill Paul
> I haven't been able to find a driver for this ethernet card, That's because it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a "National Semiconductor 82c168/82c169." There is such a thing as a National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPHYter), and there's also such a thing as a Lite-On 82c168/82c169 (PNIC

Re: [PATCH available] TI-RPC and NetBSD's rpc.lockd

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Paul
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:20:46AM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: > [snip] > > Issues with the code: > > > > 1.) NETBSD sets in svc_tcp.c some LOCAL_CREDS which we don't have in our > > src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c. They have a FLAG which - if set - > > automatically sends the credentials on AF_UNIX

Re: [PATCH available] TI-RPC and NetBSD's rpc.lockd

2000-12-26 Thread Bill Paul
[chop] > Switching gears back to the BSD/OS approach you mentioned, UNPv1 says, > > On a datagram socket, the credentials accompany every datagram. On > a stream socket, the credentials are sent only once, the first time > data is sent. > > So as long as one is using a SOCK_DGRAM

NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-13 Thread Bill Paul
For those who have gigabit ethernet NICs based on the National Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 controller chips and want to use them with FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3, there is a driver kit now available at the following URL: http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/National/dp83820_drv.tar.gz This kit co

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > > > For those who have gigabit ethernet NICs based on the National > > Semiconductor DP83820 and DP83821 controller chips and want to use > > them with FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3, there is a driver kit now available > > at t

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
> > On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 12:57 PM, Bill Paul wrote: > [...] > > The chip has some nifty features though: hardware VLAN tag insertion > > and removal, TCP/IP checksum offload on receive and transmit, 2048-bit > > multicast hash filter, and 4 pattern mat

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Bill Paul wrote: > > > They're "okay." The NatSemi chip has one flaw, which is that RX buffers > > must be aligned on a 64-bit boundary. None of the more expensive NICs have > > this restriction. > > Go ahead and beat me up if

Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

2001-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
e process keeps running. Some OSes (e.g. Solaris) clobber the process with a SIGBUS. Some would argue the latter behavior is better since it makes it easier to find and fix what is probably a bug in the first place. -Bill -- ==

Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code

2001-08-20 Thread Bill Paul
a test box in the lab right now. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems = "I like zees g

Re: Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code

2001-08-20 Thread Bill Paul
sed. It's right where I need it. Why not take advantage of it? > > Finally- why not make this an inline? Er... because that idea offended my delicate sensibilities? :) -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master o

Re: Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code

2001-08-22 Thread Bill Paul
to the list when the transaction is completed. - Updated the modified if_sf driver to use the new code. Again, I've got this code running on the test box in the lab, so it's correct inasmuch as it compiles and runs, even though it may not be aesthetically pleasing. -Bill

Re: Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code

2001-08-22 Thread Bill Paul
ing the head of the list, then it hands it to bus_dmamap_list_alloc() along with the required dma tag. bus_dmamap_list_alloc() then calls bus_dmapap_create() to populate the list. The driver doesn't have to manipulate the list itself, until time comes to destroy it. -Bill --

Re: Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code

2001-08-22 Thread Bill Paul
them to the map list for later use. It isn't until the driver calls bus_dmamap_list_destroy() that the dmamaps are actually released and the list free()ed. -Bill -- = -Bill Pau

Patches for Conexant LANfinity support

2001-09-02 Thread Bill Paul
ess/failure/whatever reports would be much appreciated. -Bill -- ==== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Syst

Need testers, Broadcom BCM570x gigE driver

2001-09-19 Thread Bill Paul
ble checksum offload, #define BGE_CSUM_FEATURES to 0, then recompile. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need testers, Broadcom BCM570x gigE driver

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Paul
ing to cook up a -current version of the code presently. Watch this space. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu

Re: Need testers, Broadcom BCM570x gigE driver

2001-09-20 Thread Bill Paul
There is now a -current version of the bge driver at the following URL: http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/5.x The brgphy driver in -current has already been updated so support the BCM5401 and BCM5411 PHYs, so no other changes are necessary. Share and enjoy. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: any reason to use m_devget in the "dc" driver ?

2001-09-22 Thread Bill Paul
> I probably missed some emails ? And you can't go back and read them from the archives because...? > In any case i was only concerned about the additional copy > done by m_devget when the controller can already DMA into > an mbuf, and there are no alignment constraints. I don't know what you'r

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-29 Thread Bill Paul
> > On the other hand, the Tigon III > > is capable of 960 megabits -- about the wire rate limit -- > > with normal size packets, if you implement software interrupt > > coelescing (which doesn't help, unless you crank the load up > > to close to wire speed and/or do more of the stack processing

Driver kit for BCM570x gigE NICs

2001-09-28 Thread Bill Paul
transfers, I'd be interested to see the results. Share and enjoy! -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Sy

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Paul
> Hi, > I'm using the Netgear GA620 Gig ethernet NIC with Tigon II chip. > > Do you know if it is possible to increase the buffer size for standard sized > ethernet frames from 512 buffers to say, 1024? > > I assume I'd have to modify the firmware and the host driver to accomodate > these buffe

Ax88172 vs FreeBSD USB stack

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Paul
the chip only as "vendor 0x77b, device 0x2226".) -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wind River Systems ===

Re: Ax88172 vs FreeBSD USB stack

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Paul
For the ID strings - it seems that the hardware vendor just left the > string empty in the eeprom. There is a UQ_NO_STRINGS quirk for this. Perhaps I should use it. -Bill -- = -

Re: Ax88172 vs FreeBSD USB stack

2003-03-29 Thread Bill Paul
function so that it sets up the hash table correctly. I think I also need to fix promisc mode. This code is for 5.0-RELEASE or better. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-F

Rrrrrr.....

2003-05-27 Thread Bill Paul
ll *NOT* port the Linux driver to FreeBSD. Is everyone clear on this now? Good, because any further questions along these lines will be summarily ignored. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engine

Looking for RealTek 8169-based NIC for testing

2003-06-30 Thread Bill Paul
es in fact work with it though, so if you've got one, save this e-mail and watch for a call for testers. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu [EM

Call for testers: rl(4) optimized for 8139C+

2003-07-04 Thread Bill Paul
fact say 8139C+.) I hope RealTek has actually sold this chip well, because it actually seems to perform really well. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-23

MCT USB<->RS232 driver

2003-07-06 Thread Bill Paul
make it available for others who might have a USB<->RS232 adapter with the same chip. Share and enjoy! -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Ma

Re: MCT USB<->RS232 driver

2003-07-06 Thread Bill Paul
> Bill Paul wrote this message on Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 21:36 -0700: > > When I got it home, I found that almost everything is supported in > > FreeBSD 5.x, except for one thing: the serial port. The chip is a > > MCT USB-232 device, which is supported in NetBSD, but not FreeBS

Re: MCT USB<->RS232 driver

2003-07-07 Thread Bill Paul
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Paul) writes: > : When I got it home, I found that almost everything is supported in > : FreeBSD 5.x, except for one thing: the serial port. The chip is a > : MCT USB-232 device, which is supported in Ne

Re: Nvidia Licensing Question

2003-07-20 Thread Bill Paul
write a driver from scratch, but I don't have any nVidia contacts or any info about why nVidia is being such a pain in the ass about releasing info concerning this NIC. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329

nVidia nForce2 potential owners please read

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
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nVidia nForce2 potential owners please read (take two)

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
MAIL PROTECTED] And don't be afraid to spread the word. Ask other people on other mailing lists. Ask your friends. Ask your enemies. Ask not what your OS can do for you: ask what you can do for your OS. -Bill -- = -B

Update on nVidia/MCP ethernet

2003-07-24 Thread Bill Paul
I've been told they will not prevent me from releasing driver source. I hope to get this resolved soon. Stay tuned. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Uni

Re: MIIBUS_MEDIAINIT method

2002-04-21 Thread Bill Paul
user-servicable parts inside. Keep out of children. Do not look into laser optics with remaining eye. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer,

Call for testers: SysKonnect gigabit ethernet driver

1999-07-07 Thread Bill Paul
new if_media.h is in place. If you have problems, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include lots of details. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PRO

PCCARD and Vpp voltage

1999-07-09 Thread Bill Paul
hen it needs to be turned on and do it only for those cards that need it? -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecom

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-16 Thread Bill Paul
w and you weren't before, then you changed something. Stands to reason, doesn't it? -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Call for testers: Adaptec AIC-6915 fast ethernet driver

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Paul
ttle, the sooner it will go into the tree. No user-servicable parts inside. Offer void where prohibited by law. Operators are standing by. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Un

Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et

1999-07-21 Thread Bill Paul
%9%H!<%k$7$?$N$G$9$,!"(B > NIC$B!'!!(BDEC 21143-based >$B$H%S%G%*%+!<%I!'(BSiS5598$B$N@_Dj$,$&$^$/$$$-$^$;$s!"8=:_(B > $BF0$+$7$F$k(B > $BJ}$,$$$i$7$?$i65$($F$/$@$5$$!#(B I can't read this either. :( -Bill -- =

Update on Adaptec AIC-6915 "starfire" driver

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
is into the -current branch soon. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How do you allocate dma channel with newbus?

1999-08-16 Thread Bill Paul
SD driver: I mean an example which will actually work in FreeBSD). The fxp, xl, sf, sk, ti and other drivers have been newbused and use bus master DMA; hopefully these should provide decent examples. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Charles Randall had to walk into mine and say: > Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards. > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ > > FYI, > Charles > > -Original Me

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, David Malone had to walk into mine and say: > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 06:43:24PM -0400, Bill Paul wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, I thought I saw that you could get Intel > Etherexpress 1Gb/s cards. Do these exist and if s

Call for testers, new driver, blah blah blah...

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Paul
x soon, and st is still used there. As usual, report problems or send large bags of cash to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I plan to merge this driver into the -current branch just as soon as I can whip up a man page for it. Share and enjoy! -Bill -- =====

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-06 Thread Bill Paul
_Breathe._ That's better.) Is it possible to cram all this stuff into one driver? Well, sure: the Linux tulip driver does it, although I can't say whether or not the Linux driver handles all of the supported cards correctly all of the time. Could you do it? Sure, why not. Could *I* do it

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-07 Thread Bill Paul
27;m going to migrate support for the genuine DEC > chips, as well. If you can actually get it all to work and retain some portion of your sanity, I'll be mighty impressed. -Bill -- = -Bill Paul(212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cent

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-08 Thread Bill Paul
I could buy a board in the U.S., since I already had the datasheet (the AL981 sheet is on their server). They turned out to be really eager to help me and sent me two cards directly. Again, I have to grope through my back e-mail to find the name of the guy I spoke too, but you can easily

Re: Tulip device driver question

1999-09-08 Thread Bill Paul
retty cruddy DMA engine. > > Davicom ... Winbond-like? No, the Davicom DM9102 is a pretty close copy of the tulip: it uses the setup frame mechanism for programming the RX filter. You can find the datasheet at http://www.davicom8.com. They also have a Linux driver up there somewhere (it's kind of gnarly, but then so are most Linux drivers). The DM9102 also has a built-in

Call for testers: Aironet wireless adapters

1999-09-14 Thread Bill Paul
be done with the ancontrol utility (i.e. ancontrol -i an0 -n "MY_NETWORK"). As usual, report problems or send free large bags of cash to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Include lots of details. -Bill -- ===== -Bill Paul

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
he DEC tulip workalike chipsets. (Well, except for the Winbond W89C840F, which is still supported by the wb driver.) The really really old LNE100TX cards were based on the DEC 21140, and LinkSys doesn't sell those anymore, so I doubt you have one of those. -Bill -- ===

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
#x27; in. If it works, can I add a comment about > 'LNE100TX' cards to the comments in LINT for 'dc'? Sure, if you like, however note that "man 4 dc" should also yield a list of supported cards, including the LNE100TX v2.0. -Bill -- ====

USB ethernet hacking

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Paul
. Don't ask me when/if the driver will be done. Don't ask me if your favorite adapter will be supported. Don't ask me how to make the code work with FreeBSD 3.x. -- = -Bill Paul

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