[rescue] S-bus FDDI cards and NetBSD drivers, again.....

[Julius Sridhar]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:44:57PM -0500, George Adkins wrote:
> > > Yeah, don't run your firewall on Slowlaris.
> > > run it on OpenBSD or NetBSD if you're good at tightening a Box up.
> >
> > this was my first choice.  there is one serious flaw with this though.  there
> > is to this day, no SBus FDDI support in anything but Solaris.  so i have no
> > choice but to run Solaris on this machine.  and besides, Solaris is not that
> > terrible a thing.  really.
>
> I've offered to work on a driver (initially for NetBSD) if someone ships
> me a card I can keep (and preferrably with the right cables to plug it
> into my FDDI-ready DECswitch 900EF)....  :-)
>
> Just "finger woods at most.weird.com" for my mailing address!  ;-)
>
> Of course I'll need to find hardware docs for said card (and its chip if
> there's not already a compatible low-level chip driver), and having a
> CDDI media converter would be nice too as I've got some PCI CDDI cards
> that should also interface (and which already have NetBSD drivers).

It would be extremely difficult to do, since Sbus FDDI cards don't have
station management in hardware like DEC cards do.

Peace...  Sridhar