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Re: Has anybody used IBM Ethernet adapter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Gortmaker)
Fri Feb 2 14:30:45 1996
From: Paul Gortmaker <gpg109@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>
To: alvin@eyepoint.com (Alvin Starr)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 19:28:17 +1100 (EST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960131082457.4437A-100000@caesar.eyepoint.com> from "Alvin Starr" at Jan 31, 96 08:28:53 am
> Has anybody used the "Adaptor/A" from IBM. This board is based on an SMC
> chipset that looks to be 82C690. The other problem is that it is an
> MicroChannel board.
The 83c690 is used on all of the recent SMC wd80x3 cards (aka Elite and
Elite 16) - even the eight bit ones. The Ultra cards use an 83c790. You
could probably hack either driver to work. (For those that haven't
noticed, you can use the wd driver on Ultra cards if you specify the IRQ
and mem addr with an ether="..." line.)
I heard these MCA cards do work with a minor hack to the SMC-Ultra driver.
Unfortunately I can't find the patch at the moment. Somebody posted it
to comp.os.linux.networking (and a PS/2 newsgroup) a while ago. I saved
it somewhere so I could mention it in the Ethernet-HowTo, but it evades
me at the moment. Ask there and you will probably get another copy.
I also got a recent report that the 3c529 (an MCA version of the 3c509)
also works fine once you use the PS/2 utility to get the i/o address,
and then just hard-code that value into 3c509.c and off you go.
Paul.
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