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Re: SMC Ether Power PCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Sat Jan 13 17:32:40 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 20:59 MET
From: smurf@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In linux.dev.net, article <199601051504.JAA03894@tigger.beckman.uiuc.ed=
u>,
Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu> writes:
>=20
> I have been using the DE435 driver with my SMC EtherPower card for a =
while now
> and it seems to work very well.
>=20
... if you don't mind the fact that the driver wants you to actually te=
ll
it the bus and number of the PCI card it should probe for. IMHO that's
_really_ ugly -- what can possibly be wrong with scanning that stupid b=
us
and installing yourself for all the cards you find?
Oh yes, and the usual hacks because nobody, especially not the author, =
has
collected enough of these little round tuits(*) to adapt the beast to t=
he
not-so-recent multicast changes.
I'd do it myself, but I don't understand enough about what the multicas=
t
code is doing, and we're not using multicast, so I just faked enough fo=
r
the driver to compile and run in unicast mode... not something I'd like=
to
release to anybody, unfortunately. :-(
(*) as in "getting around to it", in case somebody doesn't understand t=
he
(weak, I'll be the first to admit) pun.
--=20
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