Re: [parisc-linux] network card

[Chris Jantzen <chris-parisc@maybe.net>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:03:38PM -0600, Ricardo Jose Guevara Ochoa wrote:
> > I got a HP 9000 D-Class D270 running Debian 3.0r1 with linux version 
> > 2.4.17-32, and the instalation detected one of two network cards thats 
> > comes with the server. It detected the lan card that is integrated to 
> > the server, but i need to use the both cards. The one it did not 
> > detect is an eisa lan card, HP A4308-66001. Can someone help, o can i 
> > put a isa card to this server.
> 
> I suggest you update your kernel to at least 2.4.19, and I think 2.4.20
> would be a wiser choice.  IIRC we didn't support the ISA or EISA slots at
> all in 2.4.17.  This doesn't guarantee the card will work, but it might
> do.  I had a 100VG card working in a 715 when I was doing EISA initially.

AFAIK EISA DMA is still unsupported, though strides have been made in
the overall architecture to support non-PCI DMA in Linux more elegantly.

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