kern/102217: no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter

[Juergen Lock]

The following reply was made to PR kern/102217; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To: admin at lissyara.su
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, joerg at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/102217: no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:47:43 +0200 (CEST)

 In article <200608180847.k7I8lQu6076580 at www.freebsd.org> you write:
 >
 >>Number:         102217
 >>Category:       kern
 >>Synopsis:       no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter
 >>[...]
 
 Many moons ago, I was working on a driver that joerg@ started.  I was
 promised docs, but never received them (you know who you are :), and
 now I have long lost access to the hardware I tested it on (J2585B PCI
 card on a 100VG hub, is the J2585A PCI too?)  So if someone who still
 has the hardware wants to pick up where I left I can send them what I
 have.  The driver seemed to work with the J2585B card, talking to the
 100VG hub, but it still exhibited a strange problem that the DOS and
 linux drivers I looked at didnt seem to have (for which Joerg had already
 found a workaround tho), and, unlike the linux driver, it didnt do DMA.
 The last time I updated it was for FreeBSD 4.6 (iirc), so obviously for
 6.1 (or even committing to HEAD) it would at least need updating and
 testing again. (and made MPSAFE...)
 
  Any takers?
 	Juergen
 
 PS: sorry i didn't see this earlier...