Re: Installing a generic PCI network card

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

Chuma Agbodike <chuma@pacbell.net> writes:
> Why is it being used as a 16 bit card. Or is it running as a 32 bit ?

>From /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz:

  Various clone manufacturers have started making PCI ne2000 clones
  based on the RealTek 8029 chip. These cards are also supported by the
  linux ne2000 driver for v2.0 kernels.  However you only benefit from
  the faster bus interface, as the card is still using the age-old
  ne2000 driver interface.

Later in the file:

  Recently two other PCI NE2000 clones have appeared, those being cards
  based upon the Winbond 89C940 chip, and the Compex ReadyLink-2000
  cards. The ne2000 driver in v2.0.x doesn't know about the PCI ID's of
  these cards, and hence won't detect them without an explicit I/O
  address being given at boot. (See the FAQ section on NE2000 cards for
  more details on dealing with an undetected PCI card.)  Support for
  these additional cards has already been written and will appear in a
  v2.1.x kernel sometime in the near future, so that they will then be
  autodetected as well.

  If you have a NE2000 PCI card that is not a RealTek, Winbond, or
  Compex ReadyLink, please contact the maintainer of the NE2000 driver
  as listed in /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS. That way the ID of your card
  can also be added to the driver.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> <blp@gnu.org> <pfaffben@debian.org>


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