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* This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fastwpaul1999-07-252-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
* Update ThinkPad special mode entry for atkbd0. Add an entry dealingrnordier1999-07-151-4/+25
| | | | | | with failure to detect XT/AT-style keyboards in boot2 during install. Submitted by: yokota
* This commit adds driver support for the SysKonnect SK-984x serieswpaul1999-07-092-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gigabit ethernet adapters. This includes two single port cards (single mode and multimode fiber) and two dual port cards (also single mode and multimode fiber). SysKonnect is currently the only vendor with a dual port gigabit ethernet NIC. The ports on dual port adapters are treated as separate network interfaces. Thus, if you have an SK-9844 dual port SX card, you should have both sk0 and sk1 interfaces attached. Dual port cards are implemented using two XMAC II chips connected to a single SysKonnect GEnesis controller. Hence, dual port cards are really one PCI device, as opposed to two separate PCI devices connected through a PCI to PCI bridge. Note that SysKonnect's drivers use the two ports for failover purposes rather that as two separate interfaces, plus they don't support jumbo frames. This applies to their Linux driver too. :) Support is provided for hardware multicast filtering, BPF and jumbo frames. The SysKonnect cards support TCP checksum offload however this feature is not currently enabled (hopefully it will be once we get checksum offload support). There are still a few things that need to be implemeted, like the ability to communicate with the on-board LM80 voltage/temperature monitor, but I wanted to get the driver under CVS control and into -current so people could bang on it. A big thanks for SysKonnect for making all their programming info for these cards (and for their FDDI and token ring cards) available without NDA (see www.syskonnect.com).
* Added a short README to PC-card boot.flp directory.hosokawa1999-07-061-0/+13
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* It's really mP6.green1999-07-031-1/+1
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* Mention the Rise MP6, list merged items. There are probably a pile moremsmith1999-07-021-3/+5
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* Update these files to match current reality.jkh1999-07-023-1588/+10
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* Fix support for the PNIC II. Earlier I had assumed that the PNIC II waswpaul1999-05-282-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | similar to the PNIC I (supported by the pn driver). In fact, it's really a Macronix 98715A with wake on LAN support added. According to LinkSys, the PNIC II was jointly developed by Lite-On and Macronis. I get the feeling Macronix did most of the work. (The datasheet has the Macronix logo on it, and is in fact nearly identical to the 98715 datasheet, except for the extra wake on LAN registers.) In any case, the PNIC II works just fine with the Macronix driver. The changes are: - Move PCI ID for the PNIC II from the pn driver to the mx driver. - Mention PNIC II support in mx.4. - Mention PNIC II support in RELNOTES.TXT and HARDWARE.TXT.
* Update for post 3.2R since this'll be quickly forgotten otherwise.hoek1999-05-241-2/+2
| | | | Say, isn't about time for a -SNAP release?
* MF3S: typohoek1999-05-242-2/+2
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* Typos (one reported in misc/11876 by Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>)hoek1999-05-246-14/+14
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* - Fix up some comments in if_wi.c (no code changes)wpaul1999-05-222-3/+15
| | | | | | | - Mention that the 6Mbps turbo adapters are supported in HARDWARE.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT and the wi.4 man page - Mention turbo adapters in the wicontrol.8 man page and provide a complete table of available transmit speed settings
* Remove `ix' driver. Justin Gibbs added support for the EtherExpress16 toobrien1999-05-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | the `ie' driver in rev 1.41 of if_ie.c on 1997/04/14. Thus retiring the `ix' driver. Forgotten by: gibbs
* Remove duplicated `ex0' entry.obrien1999-05-211-1/+0
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* This commit adds driver support for PCI fast ethernet cards based on thewpaul1999-05-212-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ADMtek AL981 "Comet" chipset. The AL981 is yet another DEC tulip clone, except with simpler receive filter options. The AL981 has a built-in transceiver, power management support, wake on LAN and flow control. This chip performs extremely well; it's on par with the ASIX chipset in terms of speed, which is pretty good (it can do 11.5MB/sec with TCP easily). I would have committed this driver sooner, except I ran into one problem with the AL981 that required a workaround. When the chip is transmitting at full speed, it will sometimes wedge if you queue a series of packets that wrap from the end of the transmit descriptor list back to the beginning. I can't explain why this happens, and none of the other tulip clones behave this way. The workaround this is to just watch for the end of the transmit ring and make sure that al_start() breaks out of its packet queuing loop and waiting until the current batch of transmissions completes before wrapping back to the start of the ring. Fortunately, this does not significantly impact transmit performance. This is one of those things that takes weeks of analysis just to come up with two or three lines of code changes.
* Update the list of devices supported (nothing spectacular)n_hibma1999-05-181-0/+7
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* Punt! This file is now architecture specific.jkh1999-05-121-529/+0
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* A special installation guide for the Alpha. Thanks, Doug! This is good!jkh1999-05-121-0/+437
| | | | Submitted by: Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>
* Hmm. Could have sworn I committed this before. Mention the jail() stuffjkh1999-05-112-0/+6
| | | | | in release notes. Be kinda neat if the jail stuff refused to allow read/write access to raw devices too. :)
* add in mention of 1080/1240 supportmjacob1999-05-112-2/+4
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* Gdb has been updated to version 4.18 and is now part of the standarddfr1999-05-082-0/+6
| | | | release for FreeBSD/alpha.
* Added details of PCI network cards which work by emulating the NE2000.roger1999-05-064-6/+16
| | | | | | | RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000, Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926. (checked with Bill Paul) Mention the Brooktree Bt878 is supported by the Bt848 driver.
* Typo fix.jkh1999-05-052-4/+4
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* Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIAwpaul1999-05-054-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol utility to manipulate some of the card parameters. This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross). The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.) Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
* Typo fix and a very minor wording adjustment.max1999-05-052-6/+6
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* Substantially update this to match reality. Also do a typo/facto pass overjkh1999-05-042-160/+150
| | | | Max's serial console instructions (this is good stuff, thanks Max!).
* Add a new section ``Tips for Serial Console Users''. (Previousmax1999-05-042-2/+56
| | | | | | commit included the entry for this section in the Table of Contents by mistake.) Also, some typo fix.
* Style fix: make the indentation consistent.max1999-05-042-6/+8
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* Add compat22 and compat3x.obrien1999-04-202-20/+20
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* Fix a misspelling.jkh1999-04-132-2/+2
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* Update the list of supported USB devices with the list that is stored inn_hibma1999-04-112-4/+50
| | | | usbdevs.h and usbdevs_data.h. Any additional entries are welcome.
* Updated the list of devices supported by the USB susystem.n_hibma1999-04-102-8/+82
| | | | Thanks Mike for the hint.
* Add ISDN cards supported by isdn4bsd to list of supported hardware,hm1999-04-102-4/+84
| | | | remove nic driver for Dr. Neuhaus Niccy 300x ISDN cards from this list
* Add a skinny USB section. Note that the Zip mention preempts the actualmsmith1999-04-082-2/+34
| | | | comitting of the umass driver by a little.
* State the need to read errata more, um, strongly.jkh1999-04-083-15/+34
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* Add driver support for gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteonwpaul1999-04-064-0/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets. There are a _lot_ of OEM'ed gigabit ethernet adapters out there which use the Alteon chipset so this driver covers a fair amount of hardware. I know that it works with the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620, however it should also work with the DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, Silicon Graphics Gigabit ethernet board, NEC Gigabit Ethernet board and maybe even the IBM and and Sun boards. The Netgear board is the cheapest (~$350US) but still yields fairly good performance. Support is provided for jumbo frames with all adapters (just set the MTU to something larger than 1500 bytes), as well as hardware multicast filtering and vlan tagging (in conjunction with the vlan support in -current, which I should merge into -stable soon). There are some hooks for checksum offload support, but they're turned off for now since FreeBSD doesn't have an officially sanctioned way to support checksum offloading (yet). I have not added the 'device ti0' entry to GENERIC since the driver with all the firmware compiled in is quite large, and it doesn't really fit into the category of generic hardware.
* 4.0 will offer EGCS over GCC to the world.obrien1999-04-042-0/+6
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* This apparently works now, excise it from TROUBLE.TXTjkh1999-03-181-7/+0
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* Add import of ISC's DHCP client & the upgrade of Groff.obrien1999-03-152-0/+10
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* Update to post-branch state (yeesh!)jkh1999-03-121-10/+6
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* Add Specialix SI/XIO/SX ISA, EISA and PCI serial expansion cards/modulesjkh1999-03-082-0/+4
| | | | | Submitted by: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> PR: 10456
* Update reference to setup.exe (which is now dead).jkh1999-02-232-22/+8
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* MF3: SYSVMSG addition, fluff with release notes.jkh1999-02-142-2/+2
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* 4.0-current!jkh1999-02-141-3/+3
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* List diamond fireport cards under Symbios section.jkh1999-02-114-0/+4
| | | | Submitted by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
* Several recent additions. Folks, please update this file if you add somejoerg1999-02-032-0/+14
| | | | | | | | new feature to the system! . SVR4 emulation . NTFS . upgrade of f77 via f2c
* Adjust notes to describe new boot floppy scheme.jkh1999-01-311-40/+42
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* Add two additional cards to the supported adapters list: the Racore 8165wpaul1999-01-294-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | and Racore 8148 adapters are now supported by the ThunderLAN driver. The 8165 is just a plain vanilla 10/100 card; the 8148 is a 'multi- personality' adapter which can support 10baseT, 100baseTX and 100baseFX if you include the proper modules. Also update the tl man page to mention the Racore cards.
* s/wcd/acd/jkh1999-01-264-4/+4
| | | | Noted by: des
* Update for 4.0 by adding the first two major changes and deleting a lotwollman1999-01-212-144/+46
| | | | of irrelevant (2.x/3.x) content.
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