Re: Motorola Starmax 3000/180, RTL 8139/8029, and a /big/ quandary
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The RTL8029 is a PCI NE2000 clone. `modprobe ne2k-pci' should work.
>
> Hooray, it worked!! Thank you very much! I'm getting solid 650 MB/s through it, which may be limited by my hub; but that's a good bit more than the cable modem will give me so it's all I need.
I assume you mean `650 kB/s'? That sounds more normal :-)
> This cries out for a patch to at the very least Documentation/Configure.help, and probably drivers/net/Config.in. Are there many other NE2000 clones? I'll put together patches for 2.2 and 2.4
> within the next week or so, unless someone gives a good reason not to.
Yes, almost all cheap Ethernet cards are NE2000 clones. The list of (known and
supported) PCI NE2000 clones is in drivers/net/ne2k-pci.c (pci_clone_list[]),
and probably also in the Ethernet-HOWTO (cfr. Documentation/Configure.help).
Unfortunately most no-name Ethernet cards are sold in boxes that don't mention
what's really inside, just that there's a floppy with a driver for Windows :-(
> Previously on this thread I asked why there are so few network card modules in the Debian pmac .config. Now let me add: why does i386 have CONFIG_FILTER, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE,
> etc., and we don't? If there is no particular reason, I'll file a (wishlist) bug report against kernel-image-2.2.17-pmac, and hope the change gets into 2.2r1. (Not that 2.2.17 boots on my
> StarMax 3000 with quik, but it might be helpful for some others.)
Are you sure these are not available on PPC? I see no reason why these generic
networking options wouldn't work. Perhaps people simply forgot to enable them
when compiling the Debian kernel?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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