From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17307 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2003 07:48:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17298 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 07:48:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.idtinc.de) (195.30.47.34) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 07:48:50 -0000 Received: from DynaPel.de (unknown [10.0.2.109]) by mail.idtinc.de (Postfix on SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.0) with ESMTP id 032852FC02; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:50:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F2E1052.9010307@DynaPel.de> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 07:48:00 -0000 From: Eric Doenges User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021204 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Garnett Cc: Michael Anburaj , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [ECOS] PCI Ethernet card X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 Nick Garnett wrote: > "Michael Anburaj" writes: > > >>Hi All, >> >>Thanks all for sharing info. >> >> >>>for one of the commodity PCI ethernet chipsets. That would be a useful >> >>Can you point me to a particular commodity PCI Ethernet chipset, >>which’s good & well documented & cards based on them affordable :-) > > > Not offhand. I'm not sure what gets put into cheap ethernet cards > these days. I know someone is already doing a RealTek driver. [ ... ] According to RealTek, they held over 60% of the total market for Ethernet and Fast Ethernet in 2002, so chances are good most low-end 100 MBit cards will use one of the RealTek 8139 variants. If Michael wants to try his hand at improving my driver for it he is of course more than welcome to do so (the latest code was posted to ecos-patches on Friday); however the RealTek 8139 definitely does not fall into the 'well documented' category (you can get a data sheet without signing anything, but it's not very helpful since it is missing a few important points and contains a number of mistakes). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric Doenges | DynaPel Laboratories GmbH | | Tel: +49 89 962428 23 | Fraunhoferstrasse 9/2 | | Fax: +49 89 962428 90 | D - 85737 Ismaning, Germany | -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss