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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Endangered Freedom ? Post 302534637 by Neo on Tuesday 28th of June 2011 10:35:48 AM

06-28-2011

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Yes, I understand... but every system has boundaries, and for these forums, we made the decision to keep the "signal-to-noise ratio" high by discouraging emotional arguments and "religious opinions".

Is this a "perfect system"? No, it is not; but it is the system here; and it seems to work quite well. We are not the biggest forum on the net, but we are certainly, with little doubt, one of the highest quality forums.

So, we intentionally created some system "boundaries" here, and those boundaries will make some comfortable and others uncomfortable. That is the nature of boundaries and systems.

... and on a personal basis, I loathe forums and discussion groups where emotions run high, logic is lost, and manipulation and gang and chic mentality runs rampant. I really don't like it when someone who cannot formulate a technical argument in a debate takes the low road and starts using ad hominems, false logic (fallacy), and personal attacks.

These forums were formed and are managed in this manner; and yes, it is not a perfect system, but it is the system here.

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snc

SNC(4)							 BSD/i386 Kernel Interfaces Manual						    SNC(4)

NAME

     snc -- National Semiconductor DP8393X SONIC Ethernet adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     device isa
     device snc

DESCRIPTION

     The snc driver provides support for the National Semiconductor SONIC Ethernet adapters.

HARDWARE

     The snc driver supports the following cards:

     o	 National Semiconductor DP83934AVQB
     o	 NEC PC-9801-83
     o	 NEC PC-9801-84
     o	 NEC PC-9801-103
     o	 NEC PC-9801-104
     o	 NEC PC-9801N-15
     o	 NEC PC-9801N-25
     o	 NEC PC-9801N-J02 PCMCIA
     o	 NEC PC-9801N-J02R PCMCIA

     The snc driver also includes support for the National Semiconductor NS46C46 as 64 * 16 bits Microwave Serial EEPROM.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     Accessing SONIC card data structures and registers as 32 bit values makes code endianness independent.  The SONIC is however always in big-
     endian mode so it is necessary to ensure that data structures shared between the CPU and the SONIC card are always in big-endian order.  The
     snc driver supports the PC-98 C-Bus, and PnP buses.  Support is also provided for the legacy C-Bus.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The following driver specific error messages may be reported:

     snc%d: snc_nec16_register_irq: unsupported irq (%d)  The card returned an IRQ which is not supported by the driver.

     snc%d: invalid packet length %d bytes  An attempt to transfer a data packet failed due to an invalid packet length.

SEE ALSO

     netintro(4), bus_alloc_resource_any(9)

HISTORY

     The snc driver was ported from NetBSD by Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp> and Hiroshi Yamashita <bluemoon@msj.biglobe.ne.jp>.  It
     first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.  This manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

     Currently the snc driver only works on the PC-98 architecture.  It should probably work on the i386 architecture as well.

BSD
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