Subject: Re: PIC NIC for SparcUltra5
To: Mr Mine Sakiyama <msakiyam@yahoo.com>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/14/2002 12:00:50
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.