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| Subject: Enhanced Ethercard driver available for alpha test. |
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| My "8390" Linux ethercard drivers are now available from usra.edu and |
| super.org in ~ftp/pub/linux/ethercards/*. They'll be at tsx-11 and |
| sunsite RSN. |
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| These drivers support all common 8390-based ethernet boards. Currently |
| "common" is defined as: |
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| 3Com Products: |
| * 3Com 3c503 Board loaned by Chance Reschke, USRA.edu (thanks!) |
| 3Com 3c503/16 and excellent documentation provided by 3Com. |
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| Clones-n-things |
| NE1000 Novell and Eagle are useless for documentation, |
| * NE2000 but copied the designs directly from NatSemi;->. |
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| WD/SMC products |
| WD8003 |
| * WD8013 Board loaned by Russ Nelson, Crynwr Software. Thanks! |
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| * I've seen it work myself! |
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| There is support for the following boards, but since I've only been |
| able to borrow a thinnet of an HP ethercard I haven't been able to test it: |
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| HP LAN adaptors |
| ** HP27245 |
| ** HP27247 |
| ** HP27250 |
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| Thanks are due to the dozens of alpha testers, and special thanks to Chance Reschke <@usra.edu> and Russ Nelson <@crynwr.com> for loaning me ethercards. |
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| The following addresses are autoprobed, in this order: |
| wd.c: 0x300, 0x280, 0x380, 0x240 |
| 3c503: 0x300, 0x310, 0x330, 0x350, 0x250, 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x2e0 |
| ne.c: 0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360 |
| hp.c: 0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x280, 0x2C0, 0x200, 0x240 |
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| 80x3 clones that are reported to work: |
| LANNET LEC-45 |
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| "NE2000" clones that are reported to work: |
| Alta Combo(NE2000 clone) |
| Aritsoft LANtastic AE-2 (NE2000 clone w/ extra memory) |
| Asante Etherpak 2001/2003 |
| D-Link Ethernet II |
| LTC E-NET/16 P/N: 8300-200-002 (lipka@lip.hanse.de) |
| Network Solutions HE-203 |
| SVEC 4 Dimension Ethernet |
| 4-Dimension FD0490 EtherBoard16 |
| Cabletron products: |
| I've had a really bad time with Cabletron -- they strung |
| me along for months before telling me all information was |
| proprietary. The following boards work, but there probably |
| won't be drivers for other versions. Complain to pkelly@ctron.com. |
| E1010 No ID PROM and sketchy info from Ctron means you'll |
| E1010-x have to compile-in information about your board. |
| E2010 |
| E2010-x |
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