[805] in linux-net channel archive
Re: 100Mbit Fast Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Temptation)
Sun Jul 30 14:20:07 1995
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 05:06:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Temptation <temp@temptation.interlog.com>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
cc: Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507300011.CAA28068@hera.cuci.nl>
I have both SMC EtherPower cards, combo ones. I've always used the DE4x5
driver, it's not perfect it but it works.(eg. I ways get 3 errors during
boot, tho they don't affect the network later) When using 10base2 the
tupil.c driver never worked. Finally I got 40960 Jul 20 20:26 tulip+patches.tar
which autosenses the card, it still has some minor bugs, but it works,
and it's Faster then DE4x5 driver, alteast in the small tests that I've
done. (eg. pinging two SMC cards with both drivers, for 2 or 3 days,
FTPing large files, 80-500meg tar files. etc..)
Chris
On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> Chris Woods <cjwoods@gigotech.net> wrote:
> >(thans again, Donald!) for the SMC EtherPower with Digital's 21040 chip. I
> >went and bought a couple SMC EtherPower 10/100's (there are 2 versions of
> >the EtherPower: one is 10Mbit only, the other is 10/100). Lo and behold,
> >the chip is a 21140. Going through tulip.c, I saw a few things I would
>
> The de4x5.c driver supports both 21040 and 21140 chips.
> --
> Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl
> Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
>
> "Listen very carefully, I shall only say this once."
>
