Re: additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:52:15PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
> I'm using a Netgear FA310TX card in my mac without problems. In fact, it
> runs quite well. This card has no MacOS drivers, I just decided to see if
> it'd work in linux. The NIC the KN (or whatever it's called) models 110
> and 111 that are shipped with external used by pacbell, are also tulip
> based cards that work well (I'm using a 111 in addition to the netgear).
> This card also has a MacOS driver.
The FA310TX uses a PNIC chipset, IIRC. Rumour has it that PNICs can drop
packets at high loads for apparently no reason. This might well be false,
so don't worry if you have one and it's working fine.
> I think the tulip driver supports somewhat of a range of tulip chipsets...
Yeah, it does. See linux/driver/net/tulip/tulip_core.c:
DEC 21*4* stuff, plus
{ "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC", 256, 0x0001fbef,
{ "Macronix 98713 PMAC", 128, 0x0001ebef,
{ "Macronix 98715 PMAC", 256, 0x0001ebef,
{ "Macronix 98725 PMAC", 256, 0x0001ebef,
{ "ASIX AX88140", 128, 0x0001fbff,
{ "Lite-On PNIC-II", 256, 0x0801fbff,
{ "ADMtek Comet", 256, 0x0001abef,
{ "Compex 9881 PMAC", 128, 0x0001ebef,
{ "Intel DS21145 Tulip", 128, 0x0801fbff,
{ "Davicom DM9102/DM9102A", 128, 0x0001ebef,
(lines stripped out of this, including the lines with the closing braces for
the structs. Yes, the source compiles :)
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