[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 25-Apr-2002 17:29 GMT | Wow, another technical question out of me. Hopefully it won't be totally lost in the noise...
Someone pointed out the use of a seperate network card on the Pegasos system. A few others (given my quick search of the messages) guessed that drivers might've been a problem, or that Thendic were using a gigabit card for the fun of it.
I had another peek at FreeBSD's manpage for its Realtek drivers, and noticed it referred to the notoriously misengineered RTL8129/8139, but not the RTL8201 listed on the Pegasos specsheet.
A run over to Realtek, and a look at http://www.realtek.com.tw/htm/products/cn/rtl8201l.asp proves the 8201 is only a PHY (and presumably, something they didn't screw up) - a transceiver, and one with many handy features, but not the MAC, or processor- what we conventionally consider the ethernet chipset.
I had a quick look at the Via 8231 southbridge- no MAC there, so far as I could tell. Nothing's hiding in the Via 6306- it's everything needed for Firewire and nothing more. Same goes for the audio chipset.
So.. while I'm getting a feeling of deja vu here... where's the MAC?
[No "MAC clone" jokes, please. ;)] |
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