From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.maybe.net (12-203-17-50.client.attbi.com [12.203.17.50]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34762482E for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:41:36 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:41:35 -0700 From: Chris Jantzen To: Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] eisa nic: intel 82556. Driver? Message-ID: <20030729024135.GE21158@maybe.net> References: <41001F95FE172B4593DE6F50CAAF2D581AA227@mailserver.tj.rs.gov.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gMR3gsNFwZpnI/Ts" In-Reply-To: <41001F95FE172B4593DE6F50CAAF2D581AA227@mailserver.tj.rs.gov.br> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: --gMR3gsNFwZpnI/Ts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:55:25PM -0300, Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales= wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I just installed linux on a HP9000/D280. It's all fine, except the machi= ne has two eisa fast ethernet cards, with intel 82556 chipset, and I can't = make it work. > I've already searched a lot the internet, this list archives, recompiled= my kernel with various modules, and I am just about to loose my faith. I'v= e found a message just like "with this chipset on eisa, you're out of luck". >=20 > Is it really so? Does anyone here heard of this nic working on linux par= isc? Without fast ethernet, I'm afraid we'll have to give up putting linux = on it. I gave up on installing some EISA 3com cards in my C180. I believe the dmac bridge in Linux isn't (yet) general enough to support anything other than PCI. That said, is Fast Ethernet really *that* important? You'd have to be using the host to do fairly trivial tasks thousands of times per second to saturate 100Mbps. In other words: at these CPU speeds, anything seriously taxing will obviate your need for that much bandwidth. I do builds over NFS and notice no appreciable performance hits. (And certainly bandwidth monitors are never pegged on the network.) --=20 chris jantzen kb7rnl =3D-> __O Insert witty comment here. _`\<,_ http://www.maybe.net/ (*)/ (*) --gMR3gsNFwZpnI/Ts Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Jd7f97VrQBIVkcQRArlwAJ9ovIU/EAK2pBDkiLYEU7HLPjMp7ACdHSaP 2p3NKboyn90Xhee1dlPsXAQ= =NGtu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gMR3gsNFwZpnI/Ts--