Subject: Re: Daynaport
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Denny Gentry <denny1@home.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/06/1997 18:15:47
>>> does the Daynaport e/ii work under netbsd? i am looking for just
>>> about any nubus ethernet card that will work...
>>
>> I don't have any record of it working, but if it's based on the 
>> DP8390 or some variant thereof, it'll probably work just fine  
>> under NetBSD, assuming you don't have any video boards with which
>> it might conflict.
>
> Note that some SONIC cards should be very close to working, thanks to
> Denny's work in getting his card up and running.  Don't you (xiamin)
> have a Quadra or Centris?  Do you not have internal ethernet?  That's
> very close to working, too...

  I have a DaynaPort/E30, which is the SE/30 PDS sonic board.
The -current sources now work with this board.

  From information on Dayna's website the Nubus card appears
to be 8390 based, not SONIC: all of the other board descriptions
mention the SONIC, while the Nubus board does not. The Nubus
board says it has 64K of buffering, which makes little
sense for a DMA master device like the Sonic. From this
I'd say the Nubus version of the DaynaPort is 8390-based,
while the others (PDS, CommSlot, etc) are Sonic-based.

  If the Daynaport e/ii turns out to be Sonic based after all
it should not be difficult to get it working on -current.