Re: [PATCH] 2.4.30: Atari EtherNEC driver Mark II
> That was my thought as well (it was real expensive (AB40, NOVA gfx,
> Nemesis, ...) and since I got ARAnyM running five years ago the Falcon
> has been just sitting here unused) so I wanted to join the buildd as
> well but unfortunately the ethernec hardware is so unstable that I loose
> the network connection within minutes or don't get it on reboot at
> all :-( It's either due to my amateur recasing to a big tower or perhaps
> the Nemesized 20 MHz bus (instead of standard 16 MHz) makes it so
> unstable.
Both a long cable on the ROM port as well as too fast a bus clock might
cause this. You can try to add nops or udelays to the bus access macros to
slow down the ROM port access, perhaps. It all happens in asm/raw_io.h ...
> So I'll continue improving the ARAnym to a state where it can join the
> buildd in thousands of instances :-)
That's another thing worth pursuing :-)
Michael
Reply to: