Re: Driver for Phobos G130 (100Mbit NIC for Indy)
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Nik Hug wrote:
> I'm interested to get this card working within my SGI Indies but it seems to
> me that there aren't any drivers aviable for linux (only for irix:-there are
> some(.
>
> I'm interested to write a device driver with the help of some friends. The
> G-130 card has an Intel 21143td chip, a Altera max 7000 (?) microcontroller
> and an ethernet transceiver from level one.
>
> Do you have any directions or hints how to start this project?
The Altera Max 7000 is a CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device).
Since the 21143 is a PCI Ethernet chip, they probably implemented a PCI-to-Indy
bridge in the CPLD.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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