CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?
Everyone: I'm working on an embedded system which will be using a small Intel Atom motherboard with a single Ethernet port. The problem is, some configurations of the system are going to need two Ethernet ports, and only available ports on the system are a few USB slots and a CF (CompactFlash) socket. FreeBSD has drivers for several types of USB-to-Ethernet converters, but USB is a pretty inefficient way of doing Ethernet. So, I'm interested in finding out if anyone knows of an Ethernet interface which will plug into the CF socket and has drivers for FreeBSD. Please let me know; any help would be MUCH appreciated! --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?
Hi, So, I'm interested in finding out if anyone knows of an Ethernet interface which will plug into the CF socket and has drivers for FreeBSD. Please let me know; any help would be MUCH appreciated! Not to mentione FreeBSD drivers, but only finding an Ethernet interface that plugs into a CF sockets seems very chalenging: you don't really send/receive the same information to memory and to network interface; CF can address GB of data, while the network card has a few KB at best; etc. Good luck, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD?
At 05:13 PM 11/30/2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Not to mentione FreeBSD drivers, but only finding an Ethernet interface that plugs into a CF sockets seems very chalenging: you don't really send/receive the same information to memory and to network interface; CF can address GB of data, while the network card has a few KB at best; etc. CF sockets usually can act as sockets for ATA/IDE compatible disk drives as well as for PCMCIA-like peripheral cards. Also, there are some Ethernet interface chips that are designed to be memory-mapped. See, for example, the one by ASIX, which is often used in embedded systems because it can interface with pretty much any CPU. --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
