Subject: Re: unsuported focus ethernet card
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jeff Woolley <Jeff.R.Woolley-1@tc.umn.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/19/1998 01:52:29
>> Hello, using the supported enet chips as a reference tthis is the chip
>> info on my yet unsupported focus ethernet card.
>>
>> the chip is labelled as followed:
>> SMC
>> smc91c92qf p
>> d9351
>> 6c72390-5
>>
>> this is a nubus card and in a IIci
>> and when the box boots it saus ae0 unsupported FOCUS device.
>>
>> -
>> in the doc the closest focus card athats supported in the doc is the
>> etherlan2 with the chip number of SMC91C92
>
>That chip uses the sm driver, which isn't supported w/ mac68k. Yet.
>
>Do you feel like learning how to make kernel drivers? This one'd be
>fairly easy AFAICT. There's a fairly well-established M.I. driver which
>you just have to set up the hooks for.
>
>All you'd need to know are how the registers are spaced.
I also gert this message on my Centris 610; it's a EtherLAN II (I'm not
sure of the chip number). I would like to know how to make the driver for
this card. Especailly since it broke under OS 8.x.
--
Jeff