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Re: Amiga PCMCIA ethernet on d-i

Hi Carlos,

On 28/09/21 10:44, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote:

Hi Michael!

From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Sent: lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2021 0:00

Please check whether your card is indeed one of the supported 8390 or
compatible based cards (10 or 100 Mbit).


Taking a look at the Windows drivers, I can confirm it is indeed NE2000-compatible, but I was not able to find a reference to the 8390. It works on AmigaOS with cnet.device and on NetBSD/amiga out of the box.


NE2000 compatible means 8390 (or compatible) chipset.
Your card works with the cnet.device - that means 8-bit PCMCIA interface, not 16 bit? (You can probably tell that my knowledge of AmigaOS matters is limited ...) 




I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).


Thanks for letting me know. Am I correct to assume that the patch is to improve "possible" Linux support for cards that under AmigaOS would need the cnet16.device on AmigaOS?
If 'cnet16.device' means 16-bit access on the PCMCIA interface, then yes. And that would mean that patch series isn't going to be any help to you.
You will have to log the kernel crash message you get when loading the apne module, maybe someone can derive a hint on improving the existing (8-bit) driver from that. A good look at the NetBSD driver source may be enlightening as well. 

Cheers,

	Michael



Regards,
Carlos

Carlos Milán Figueredo | HispaMSX System Operator | http://www.hispamsx.org/ | telnet://bbs.hispamsx.org/ | https://calnus.com
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